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
The rabbi’s precocious son had taught himself ancient Hebrew by the age of 6, had finished reading Shakespeare’s complete works by 9 and published his first completeness theorem in modal logic when he was 18.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022
I acquired the complete works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and others and probed into the philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
