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Originally Posted by Red Falcon
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Yes, but you actually have to
pay for it. hahahah
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Originally Posted by Red Falcon
I think when audible says unabridged for the book they mean the stories are complete not that the audiobook has all of Hans Christian Anderson stories.I had this problem with the Naxos Version of Oscar Wilde's Fairy tales.They changed the digital version's title to select unabridged tales or some such thing after I complained.
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I think that you are right. "Unabridged" means that it has the full stories, nothing has been taken out of them (a familiar example, at least to us in the U.S., of an abridged work, would be one of the bazillions of condensed books, usually in anthologies, that Reader's Digest put(s?) out). When a title says "complete," that means that all of the author's works are included (at least all of the works that are known or available for publication (for legal reasons or otherwise)). And, yes, "select" indicates that not all of the author's works are included; it is in contrast to "complete."
There is a particular kind of written (as opposed to audio) work (there may be more than one, but I know of only one) which is described differently. I will refrain from going into all of the details, unless someone wants to know, but will mention one thing. In those works, the word "exhaustive" in the title means that all things are (supposed to be) there; the word "complete" most commonly means that all things are
not there, the work is abridged! Yes, it can be confusing.