"The book didn't catch on quite as quickly as you'd expect - the third edition was remaindered, " says Professor Janet Todd, the general editor of the nine-volume Cambridge edition of the works of Jane Austen.

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She has co-supervised, with Florence de Lussy, the volume of the Complete Works of Simone Weil dedicated to Greek sources (Ecrits de Marseille, IV, 2, Gallimard, 209).

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For a stocking filler this Christmas, you might consider the latest volume in a survey of the works of Louis Armstrong on the Naxos label.

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She finds the relentless pace at which auction houses, art fairs and gallery franchises currently offer contemporary works, and the sheer volume of art on offer, troubling.

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The volume of data produced doubles every year, according to Alexander Szalay, another astrophysicist, who works at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

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SoldiersThe only multivolume set among the AbeBooks 25 is The Works of George Bernard Shaw in 33 volumes, bargain priced at less than a thousand dollars per volume.

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