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That question isn't that hard, compared to "What is a work?"

It feels weird to call a random collection of short stories a "work", instead of using that term for each individual story (see http://openlibrary.org/works/OL152264W/The_Dunwich_horror for an example which contains three actual *works*, "The Dunwich Horror", "The Shadow Out of Time" and "The Thing on the Doorstep")

*Hi-storian*

>Hi there.  I'm new to the community.  Surprised no one's chimed in on this before.  The way I see this case, what you have is a "collective work" that, in turn, includes three separate works.  Collective works can take a number of different forms, like collections of short stories, in your case, or collections of scientific papers presented as the proceedings of a conference.  In either case, yes, the book is a "work" and the individual stories or papers should be listed as the Table of Contents.  Only if the individual stories or papers were published *separately* as a *stand-alone* book would it be considered a "work".
title: Definition of "book"
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