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  • Aeneid by Virgil
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
  • “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Don Juan by Lord Byron
  • Sanditon by Jane Austen
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
  • Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
  • Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
  • The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
  • Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Entombment by Michelangelo
  • Athenaeum portrait by Gilbert Stuart
  • Symphony in B Minor by Franz Schubert
  • Requiem in D Minor, K 626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
  • Mount Rushmore
  • Bonus: A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
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  • Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge not finish “Kubla Khan”?

List of Unfinished Works: References & Edit History

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