complete works
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During that job, he said in the Cornell talk, he purchased the complete works of Charles Dickens.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
While abroad, he ordered a copy from London of Sterne’s complete works, so he’d never be without them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Two Australian mathematicians say they have debunked an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024
He used the unpublished critical edition from the complete works of Verdi, a joint project of the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi started in the 1970s and still decades from completion.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022
I hear a zipper running up, and a moment later the complete works of Shakespeare smash into the wall beside me.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
