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An unfinished work is any creative work that was not completed at the time of the creator's death. This can include books, plays, poems, musical compositions, artworks, etc. This type has no properties. Instances should be co-typed with the type appropriate to the kind of work it was going to be....
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| x The Notion Club Papers |
The Notion Club Papers is the title of an abandoned novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, written during 1945 and published posthumously in Sauron Defeated, the 9th volume of The History of Middle-earth. It is a space/time/dream travel story, written at the...
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| x Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales |
Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales is a 1968 film directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Richard Pryor. It was never released as it was an unfinished product. The only known negative of the film was said to have been shredded by Pryor after a disagreement...
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| x Weir of Hermiston |
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Weir of Hermiston (1896) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Many have considered it his masterpiece. It was cut short by Stevenson's sudden death from a cerebral hemorrhage. The novel is set in Edinburgh and the Lothians at the time...
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| x The Works |
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The Works was to be the first entirely 3D computer animated film, created by the Computer Graphics Lab, but it was never completed. The name was inspired by the original meaning of the word "robot", which means "work" in many Slavic languages. It...
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| x The Salmon of Doubt |
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The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously unpublished material by Douglas Adams. It consists largely of essays about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the...
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| x Poodle Springs |
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Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title "The Poodle Springs Story", were...
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| x Coots in the North |
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Coots in the North is the name given by Arthur Ransome's biographer, Hugh Brogan to an incomplete Swallows and Amazons novel found in Ransome's papers. Brogan edited and published the first few chapters as a fragment with a selection of Ransome's...
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| x Moses und Aron |
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Moses und Aron (English:Moses and Aaron) is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The German libretto was by the composer after the Book of Exodus.
Moses und Aron has its roots in Schoenberg's earlier agitprop play,...
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| x The Watsons |
The Watsons is an incomplete novel by Jane Austen. She began writing it circa 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long.
Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with...
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| x Dubrovsky |
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Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский) is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and published after Pushkin’s death in 1841.
Vladimir Dubrovsky is a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a greedy and powerful aristocrat, Kirila...
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| x Monna Vanna |
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Monna Vanna (Russian: Монна Ванна) is an unfinished opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Rachmaninoff had completed Act I in short vocal score, with piano accompaniment, and then he went to ask for permission...
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| x Symphony No.7 in E major |
Franz Schubert drafted a four-movement symphony in E major (D 729) in August 1821 but, though the work (which comprises 1340 bars) is structurally complete, he only orchestrated the slow introduction and the first 110 bars of the first movement. The...
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| x The Mysterious Stranger |
The Mysterious Friend is an unfinished work and the last novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until his death in 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain...
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| x The Adventures of Pinocchio |
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio), by Raoul Verdini and Umberto Spano, was supposed to be the first animated feature film from Italy, but was never completely finished. It is considered a lost film. The Italian artist...
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| x Great Day |
Great Day (1930) is an unreleased film which was to star Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Johnny Mack Brown, and is an unusual example of a production that was started and shut down before its completion.
Great Day began as a Vincent Youmans musical...
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| x The Plant |
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The Plant is a serial novel published in 2000 as an e-book by Stephen King.
The American author Stephen King wrote a few parts of a story by the same name and sent out as chapbooks to his friends instead of Christmas cards in 1982, 1983, and 1985....
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| x Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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The Unfinished Portrait is a water color of Franklin Delano Roosevelt that was in progress at the time of his collapse and subsequent death. Elizabeth Shoumatoff had begun working on the portrait of the president around noon on April 12, 1945. FDR...
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| x Zaide |
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Zaide (originally, Das Serail) is an unfinished opera, K. 344, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. Emperor Joseph II, in 1778, was in the process of setting up an opera company for the purpose of performing German opera. One condition...
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| x The Alien |
The Alien was an Indian-American science fiction film under production in the late 1960s which was eventually cancelled. It was being directed by the parallel Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and co-produced by Hollywood studio Columbia Pictures....
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| x The Entombment |
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The Entombment is an unfinished painting of the Entombment of Christ attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, and dated c. 1500-1501. It is in the National Gallery in London.
The chronological position of this work has...
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| x The Dark Tower |
The Dark Tower is a novel written by C. S. Lewis that appears to be the beginning of an abandoned science fiction novel intended as a sequel to Out of the Silent Planet. Perelandra instead became the second book of Lewis' Space Trilogy, concluded by...
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| x Symphony No. 10 |
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 10 in E flat major is a hypothetical work. Barry Cooper assembled it from Beethoven's fragmentary sketches and two recordings were released in 1988, one conducted by Wyn Morris and the other by Walter Weller....
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| x Suite Française |
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Suite Francaise is a book by Irène Némirovsky.
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| x Dus |
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Dus (Hindi: दस, translation: Ten) is a 1997 unfinished Bollywood action film directed by Mukul S. Anand, who died during filming, leaving the film incomplete. The film starred Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon and Shilpa Shetty. Vinod Khanna...
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| x I, Claudius |
I, Claudius was the proposed 1937 film of the book I, Claudius. It was to have been produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Charles Laughton (as Claudius), Emlyn Williams (as Caligula), Flora Robson (as Livia), and...
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| x Io |
Io is an unfinished opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau in the form of a one-act acte de ballet. The date of its composition is unknown and it was probably unperformed during Rameau's lifetime. The name of its librettist is also unknown, but was probably...
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| x Le Thermozéro |
Le Thermozéro is an abandoned comics project from two of Hergé's series : The Adventures of Tintin as well as Jo, Zette and Jocko.
In the late 50's, feeling his imagination drying up, Hergé asked comic book author Greg for ideas for a new adventure...
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| x Sanditon |
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Sanditon (1817) is an unfinished novel by the British novelist Jane Austen.
In Sanditon, Austen explored her interest in the verbal construction of a society by means of a town – and a set of families – that is still in the process of being formed....
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| x Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel |
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Answered Prayers is an unfinished novel by Truman Capote, published posthumously.
The title is in reference to a quote by Saint Teresa of Ávila; answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered. According to Joseph M. Fox's editor...
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| x Woyzeck |
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Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and...
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| x Politian |
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Politian (1835) is the only play known to have been written by Edgar Allan Poe, composed in 1835 but never completed.
The play is a fictionalized version of a true event in Kentucky: the murder of Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1825....
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| x Wedding Preparations in the Country |
Wedding Preparations in the Country (German: Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande) is an uncompleted work by Franz Kafka which depicts in great detail the journey of the groom, Raban, travelling to the country to meet his future wife, Betty....
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| x Rules for the Direction of the Mind |
In 1619, René Descartes began work on an unfinished treatise regarding the proper method for scientific and philosophical thinking entitled Regulae ad directionem ingenii, or Rules for the Direction of the Mind. This work outlined the basis for his...
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| x Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist |
Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist oder Die glückliche Bärenfamilie ("Men Are More Cunning Than Women, or The Happy Bear Family") is an unfinished Singspiel by Richard Wagner, (WWV 48), written between 1837 and 1838.
Männerlist was Wagner's last...
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| x The Secret Doctrine |
The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a book originally published as two volumes in 1888, is Helena P. Blavatsky's magnum opus. The first volume is named Cosmogenesis, the second Anthropogenesis. It was an...
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| x The Thief and the Cobbler |
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The Thief and the Cobbler (released as The Princess and The Cobbler in Australia and South Africa and Arabian Knight in the United States of America; The Arabian Knight version was later released under the original name, The Thief and the Cobbler,...
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