Mary devoted much of the rest of her life to (13) the intensive and oft stymied project of shaping Percy’s poems, letters, essays, and other fragments into a definitive collection of his life’s work.

If the writer were to delete the underlined portion, the sentence would lose:
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A
details that show how difficult and long the process was.
B
an explanation of the steps Mary took to gather all of Percy's written work.
C
a description of Percy's projects.
D
details that describe what it is like to read Percy's essays.

If the writer were to delete the underlined portion, the sentence would lose details that show how difficult and long the process was.