Exemplary piece of literary work (7)
I believe the answer is:
extract
'work' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'exemplary piece of literary' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'piece' could be 'tract' (tract is a kind of piece) and 'tract' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ex' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for extract that I've seen before include "Equality of civil rights" , "Get out" , "Passage taken from book etc" , "Find out" , "bit" .)