Unfinished books

foundational theoretical text of Karl Marx

5th century BC history book by Thucydides

Philosophy book by Martin Heidegger

theological treatise by Thomas Aquinas

1980 collection of stories and essays by J.R.R. Tolkien

treatise on military strategy by Carl von Clausewitz

thumb|Second edition of Blaise Pascal's , 1670 The '''' (Thoughts'') is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work.

thumb|250px|Portrait of Marguerite de Navarre|Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, attributed to [[Jean Clouet, .]] 250px|thumb|''The Gentleman's Spur catching in the Sheet. Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Tales of the Heptameron. The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days like The Decameron'', but at Marguerite’s death it was com

essay by Dante Alighieri

non-fiction work by Helena Blavatsky

The Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (Rohentwurf) (; "Foundations/Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft)") is a lengthy, unfinished manuscript written by Karl Marx in 1857–1858. Comprising seven notebooks of economic studies, the work represents the first major draft of Marx's critique of political economy and is widely considered the preparatory work for his magnum opus, Das Kapital. The text was written for self-clarification during the Panic of 1857, and remained unpublished during his lifetime. A first edition was published in German in Moscow in 1939 and

2004 novel by Roberto Bolaño

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unfinished twenty-fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin

book by Mikhail Bakunin

religious text of some Latter Day Saint churches

essay by René Descartes

collection of stories by J. R. R. Tolkien

thumb|upright=1.2|A page from the Ormulum demonstrating the editing performed over time by Orrm, as well as the insertions of new readings by "Hand B"

thumb|1521 edition of Convivio, retitled to Lo amoroso Convivio di Dante Convivio (;) ("The Banquet") is an unfinished work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. It consists of four books, or "tratatti": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem that goes off in multiple thematic directions.

fifth volume of the 12-volume series 'The History of Middle-earth'

Autobiography of Giacomo Casanova

Biblical revision by the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement

book

1791 memoir by Benjamin Franklin

essay by Ludwig Wittgenstein

third volume of the 12-volume series ''

12th and last volume of the 12-volume series 'The History of Middle-earth'

incomplete book by Friedrich Nietzsche

book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

English translation theological work of Karl Barth

short story by Franz Kafka

Book on probability and combinatorics

2002 book by Douglas Adams

work by Eusebius

collection of literary criticism by Marcel Proust (published posthumously in 1954)

1921 fragment written by Walter Benjamin

unfinished essay written by Friedrich Engels

Dutch author (1926–1944)

novel by Stendhal

book

short story by Franz Kafka

work by Thomas Aquinas

text by the Báb, written ca. 1848

non-fiction work by Hannah Arendt

biography of Josef Stalin by Leon Trotsky

1931 short story by Franz Kafka

written collection of reminiscences by Mark Twain

literary work

Posthumous book by Sigmund Freud

essay by Christopher Hitchens

work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Anacalypsis (full title: Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions) is a lengthy two-volume treatise written by religious historian Godfrey Higgins, and published after his death in 1836. The book was published in two quarto volumes numbering 1,436 pages, and contains meticulous references to hundreds of references. Initially printed as a limited edition of 200 copies, it was partially reprinted in 1878, and completely reprinted in a limited edition of 350 copies in 1927. In 1965, University Books, Inc. p

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thumb|A scene from the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s Freydal Illuminated manuscript: Freydal jousts with Veit von Wolkenstein (fol.133} Freydal is an uncompleted illustrated prose narrative commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in the early 16th century. It was intended to be a romantic allegorical account of Maximilian's own participation in a series of jousting tournaments in the guise of the tale's eponymous hero, Freydal. In the story, Freydal takes part in the tournaments to prove that he is worthy to marry a princess, who is a fictionalised representation of Maximilian's late