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List of Unfinished Works: Media

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Original draft manuscript of “Kubla Khan”
English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's unfinished poem “Kubla Khan” offers a vision...
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Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
A 15th-century manuscript page from Geoffrey Chaucer's frame story The Canterbury...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
“At the Piano,” an illustration by Luke Fildes from Charles Dickens's novel The...
From The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (Chapman and Hall, 1914)
Michelangelo: The Entombment
The Entombment, commissioned in 1500, was famously left unfinished by Michelangelo.
© VCG Wilson/Fine Art—Corbis/Getty Images
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Morning light on Mount Rushmore National Memorial, southwestern South Dakota, U.S.
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Game of Thrones
Actor Kit Harington as Jon Snow in the TV series Game of Thrones (2011–19).
© HBO Entertainment/Television 360/Generator Entertainment/Startling Television/Bighead Littlehead