What is another word for collected works?

Pronunciation: [kəlˈɛktɪd wˈɜːks] (IPA)

Collected works is a term that refers to a set of an author's or artist's works that are published together in one book or article. There are several synonyms for this term that can be used interchangeably depending on the context. Such synonyms include complete works, collected writings, complete writings, and complete collection. Other terms that can be used include comprehensive works, canon, and anthology. These synonyms are helpful in academic, research, and literary contexts where a complete collection of an author's works is needed. Whatever synonym is used, it all boils down to a collection of the author's works.

What are the hypernyms for Collected works?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Collected works

  • I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
    Samuel West
  • If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes.
    Anonymous
  • one of the poems, was translated into French as early as 1762 while the collected works followed suit in 1777. Diderot loved them. Voltaire parodied them. Ossianic plays, operas, and mimes were written. They influenced or attracted Mme. de Staël, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset. Napoleon became a fervent admirer after he had read the poems in the Italian translation by Cesarotti.
    James Macpherson
  • Donald Barthelme has accomplished the work that the New Journalists are not competent to do. In a single story he is able to include more of the taste of the times than there is in the collected works of Wolfe, Breslin, Talese & Co. The difference lies in Barthelme’s ability to compress, almost to transistorize the world, and then make his miniatures real again by virtue of his talent for language.
    Donald Barthelme

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