Timeline for How to say a particular author is the only one you've read every book of?
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 4:20 | comment | added | Blessed Geek | Charles Dickens is hors d'oeuvre to Shakespeare. | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 4:16 | comment | added | Drew | Or just works: "C.D. is the only author whose complete works I have read." It is far more common to see "The Complete Works of W.S.*" than "The Entire Oeuvre of W.S." | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 2:07 | vote | accept | user3314409 | ||
| Mar 11, 2016 at 1:13 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | @JEL: I almost omitted the entire in my example because you can argue that oeuvre covers everything in the person's body of work. I certainly wouldn't say "I have read most of his entire oeuvre." But idiomatically "entire ouevre" is sufficiently established (as this Ngram suggests) that it may qualify as an emphatic expression of completeness, and not merely a redundancy. I accept that opinions may vary on this point, however. | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 0:49 | history | answered | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |