complete works

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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

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

A large black raven sleeps uncaged alongside the complete works of Shakespeare.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern