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One would have to be skeptical to the point of outright pathological stinginess to aver that Wallace didn't devalue careful thought -- his oeuvre is almost a paean to analytical obsession, with regard to which one might well stand in awe.

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  1. noun A work of art.
  2. noun The sum of the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer.

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  • Nor would Cordwainer Smith himself be a likely candidate for the award: his stories have been cherished and reprinted and re-reprinted ever since his premature death three and a half decades ago, and even now the heart of his magnificent oeuvre is available in a splendid 671-page volume, The Rediscovery of Man, an essential volume in any science fiction library. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002
  • The sea of faces that gathered tightly about the author were as varied as his oeuvre, ranging from geriatrics to housewives to the usual collegiate types, with some longshoremen, Hindu mystics, circus freaks, and a few disenfranchised pagan deities thrown in for good measure. —  FSF, August 2006
  • Carpenter off completely - his oeuvre is too overpacked with potential to toss it aside forever - but it does look like a once prominent personality is falling further and further down the horror hierarchy. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Including the entirety of Crumb's published oeuvre, as well as unpublished comics and illustrations, The Complete Crumb Comics series (along with its companion series, The R. Crumb Sketchbooks) is an invaluable addition to any comics library. —  ComicList Headlines
  • All your great ideas about promoting your oeuvre will be ignored and you'll find that the supply of free promotional copies you've requested (the better to give to your relatives) has dried up like the Gobi desert. —  The Publishing Contrarian
 

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  1. French œuvre, from Old French uevre, work, from Latin opera, from pl. of opus, work; see opus.
 

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