"The Mahabharata and Ramayana, they sort of permeate our consciousness," said Bibek Debroy, an economist who published the first of a 10-volume unabridged English translation of the Mahabharata in April.
Volume I. Absolutely unabridged except for the obscene passages.
Volume I. Absolutely unabridged except for the obscene passages.. View Article By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Sam Knight By Ian Parker.
Although a fraction of the size of the 46-volume edition, this unabridged translated version still weighs in at an impressively heavy 948 pages.
This full-scale, unabridged edition uses the manuscript volumes of the first and third notebooks (both carefully preserved at the Massachusetts Historical Society), retaining their spelling and punctuation, and James Savage's transcription of the middle notebook (accidentally destroyed in 1825).
For a man whose bookcase bulges with tomes like "The World of Mathematics" (in three volumes), "The World of Physics" (two volumes) and "The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia" (with "over 6,000 entries!"), such questions are child's play.
The Physician's Desk Reference, a few decades ago a thin volume, now resembles an unabridged dictionary.
He didn't review mere books; he instead reviewed -- assaulted" might be a better term -- the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the third edition of the Merriam-Webster unabridged dictionary, the Hutchins-Adler 50-volume set of the "Great Books of the Western World" and its two-volume Syntopicon, and the Warren Report.
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, read by Neville Jason (26hrs unabridged, Naxos, £65) The fourth of Proust's seven-volume epic Remembrance of Things Past also focuses on sensual pleasure, chiefly homosexual, which, though rife and largely accepted in the author's aristocratic social circle, was forbidden.
However, the complete unabridged edition of Theories of Surplus Value was published as the "fourth volume" of Capital in 1963 and 1971 in Moscow.
