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

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

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 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