complete works

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Want to read the complete works of Shakespeare?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

At the Mann House, someone grabbed the complete works of Goethe, as well as Mann’s handwritten papers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025

He added that the Thames Tunnel in east London had "a planning application 30 times longer than the complete works of Shakespeare".

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023

They are everywhere: These authors’ complete works circulate in the big bookstores in the Miraflores neighborhood and in central Lima.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2023

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