Complex sentence: The year after he left the "Times", he published a memoir, "Burning Down My Master's House"; although its initial print run was 250,000 copies, only 1,400 were sold in its first nine days.
Split into simpler sentences: The year after he left the "Times", he published a memoir, "Burning Down My Master's House". Although its initial print run was 250,000 copies, only 1,400 were sold in its first nine days.