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92-535: Sanditon (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen . In January 1817, Austen began work on a new novel she called The Brothers , later titled Sanditon , and completed twelve chapters before stopping work in mid-March 1817, probably because of illness. R.W. Chapman first published a transcription of the original manuscript in 1925 under the name Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 . The novel centres on Charlotte Heywood,

184-647: A capella vocal. Other famous unfinished rock albums include the Who 's rock opera Lifehouse , Bob Dylan 's The Basement Tapes , Jimi Hendrix 's First Rays of the New Rising Sun and Jeff Buckley 's My Sweetheart the Drunk . All have been released, in whole or part, in various posthumous forms in the ensuing years, Lifehouse being another case of using demos to present a completed work. Several artists have found that some of their studio work have been leaked onto

276-554: A cycle of near-perpetual construction, with work lasting for decades or even centuries. Antoni Gaudí 's Sagrada Família in Barcelona has been under construction since 1882. Work was delayed by the Spanish Civil War , during which part of the original models were destroyed. After the restoration of these models, the works are still in progress and the prevision is that the building will be finished in 2026. Today, even with portions of

368-479: A final version in 1977. In 1980, Christopher Tolkien published another posthumous collection of his father's unfinished work, appropriately entitled Unfinished Tales . Between 1982 and 1996, he published twelve volumes of The History of Middle-earth , a substantial portion of which is unfinished and incomplete drafts. In 2007, Christopher Tolkien published another novel from his father entitled The Children of Húrin . Like The Silmarillion , Christopher assembled

460-471: A little more in your face". Richard Carpenter released several tracks decades after his sister Karen died in 1983, leaving a multitude of unfinished work. One track, released on the "Interpretations" compilation album in 1995, included Karen's lead vocal for the song " Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again " which had previously been recorded and released by Barry Manilow . The lead had been lost for years on

552-511: A mislabelled tape. Strings, piano, and backup singers were added to the sound of Karen's lead vocal, while Richard left the sound of her turning the lead sheet over in the finished product. Another track was Karen's cover " The Rainbow Connection ", which had been written by Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams for Jim Henson to sing as Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie (1979). Recording it only

644-486: A mission to secure a house for a wealthy family from the West Indies , although she has not specifically been asked to help. She also brings word of a second large party, a girls' school, which is intending to summer at Sanditon. This news causes a stir in the small town, especially for Mr Parker, whose fondest wish is the promotion of tourism there. With the arrival of Mrs Griffiths at Sanditon, it soon becomes apparent that

736-551: A private guest audience on 27 September 2012 at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands. Some films have been completed despite such problems. A famous example is Bruce Lee 's Game of Death . Lee died during the filming, and the rest of the filming was finished with Tai Chung Kim , a Lee look-alike, acting as a double, and Yuen Biao acting as a stunt double for action scenes. His son, Brandon Lee , suffered

828-407: A producer or director) can often be replaced, it is much more difficult to change to a different actor if many of the scenes have already been filmed, or if a character is strongly associated with an actor's physique, voice, or demeanor, or special skills. For example, Dark Blood was cancelled 80% of the way through filming due to the death of its star River Phoenix . However, the film premiered to

920-712: A proposed replacement for a part of the palace, but financial constraints prevented construction. Computer technology has allowed for 3D representations of projects to be shown before they are built. In some cases the construction is never started and the computer model is the nearest that anyone can ever get to seeing the finished piece. For example, in 1999 Kent Larson's exhibition " Unbuilt Ruins: Digital Interpretations of Eight Projects by Louis I. Kahn " showed computer images of designs completed by noted architect Louis Kahn but never built. Computer simulations can also be used to create prototypes of engineering projects and test them before they are actually made; this has allowed

1012-401: A roof, but at Milan, where the painting lies, it shows some Latin that is half done. Robert William Buss left unfinished his most famous painting, Dickens' Dream , just as Charles Dickens himself had left a novel half-complete at his death. Depending on the medium involved, it can be difficult for another artist to complete an unfinished artwork without damaging it. Some artists completed

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1104-617: A similar fate when it tried to split its adaptation of the final novel, Allegiant , into two parts, similar to how it was done for the final book of the Harry Potter book series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the final book of the The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay , but the critical and commercial failure of the first part, The Divergent Series: Allegiant , ultimately discouraged efforts to produce and release

1196-538: A starkly contrasting general outlook on Persian influence in the events depicted. Artists leave behind incomplete work for a variety of reasons. A piece may not be completed if the subject becomes unavailable, such as in the changing of a landscape or the death of a person being painted. Elizabeth Shoumatoff 's Unfinished Portrait of 32nd U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt was started around noon on 12 April 1945 but left unfinished when Roosevelt died later that day. In other instances, outside circumstances can prevent

1288-506: A template to construct a version of the Beach Boys album from the original Smile Sessions in 2011. Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose during the recording sessions for Pearl . The album was released three months after her death with ten songs, including two apparently incomplete recordings. "Buried Alive in the Blues" was released as an instrumental, and " Mercedes Benz " was released as an

1380-515: A total of 632 years. It is not only buildings that have failed during the construction phase. In the 1920s, the White Star Line hired the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff to build the first 1,000-foot-long (300 m) ocean liner , with the planned name of Oceanic . However, a dispute between the companies halted the construction, then the Great Depression put an end to it; eventually

1472-425: A town which until a few years before had been a small, unpretentious fishing village. With his business partner, Lady Denham, Mr Parker hopes to make Sanditon into a fashionable seaside resort. Mr Parker's enormous enthusiasm for his plans to improve and modernise Sanditon has resulted in the installation of bathing machines and the construction of a new home for himself and his family near the seashore. Upon repair of

1564-471: A year later, Richard claims that Karen just did not like the song and that was why it was omitted from their 1981 album, Made in America . A toy piano, choir, and strings were added against Karen's vocals. The song was released in 2001 on the album As Time Goes By , considered the final studio album of the duo. Films may not be completed for several reasons, with some being shelved during different stages of

1656-423: Is Mozart 's Requiem , famous in part because of the numerous myths and legends that surround its creation and in part because of Mozart's prestige. At the time of his death, Mozart had fully orchestrated only the first movement, leaving nine further movements in varying states of completion. Franz Xaver Süssmayr , an acquaintance of Mozart, finished the nine incomplete movements and wrote four more. In addition to

1748-399: Is a painting, novel, musical composition, or other creative work , that has not been brought to a completed state. Its creator may have chosen not to finish it, deferred its completion indefinitely, or may have been prevented from doing so by circumstances beyond their control, such as death. Such pieces are often the subject of speculation as to what the finished piece would have been like had

1840-477: Is ancestor of Octavian through the supposed descent of the Julii [i.e., Octavian's family] through Aeneas' son Julius." Like their medieval predecessors, Renaissance authors drew inspiration from earlier writers. More significantly, the spread of printing, slow increase in literacy, and the development of capitalism conspired to shape a modern concept of text and authorship. In this context, one sees "continuators" in

1932-473: Is described as a silly and very florid man, though handsome. After settling in with the Parkers and encountering various neighbours, Charlotte and Mr and Mrs Parker are surprised by a visit from his two sisters and younger brother, all of whom are self-declared invalids. However, given their level of activity and seeming strength, Charlotte quickly surmises that their complaints are invented. Diana Parker has come on

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2024-640: Is no longer in its complete form. There are many reasons that a work is not completed. Works are usually stopped when their creator dies, although some, aware of their failing health, make sure that they set up the project for completion. If the work involves other people, such as a cast of actors or the subject of a portrait, it may be halted because of their unavailability. Projects that are too grandiose might never have been finished, while others should be feasible but their creator's continual unhappiness with them leads to abandonment. Unfinished works by popular authors and artists may still be made public, sometimes in

2116-619: Is the job of literary executors to take charge of the work of a writer after the writer's death. They must often decide what to do with incomplete work, using their own judgement if not given explicit instructions. In some cases, this can lead to something happening to the work that was not originally intended, such as the release of Franz Kafka 's unfinished writings by Max Brod when Kafka had wished for them to be destroyed. These works have become iconic in Western literature . The posthumous publication of some of Ernest Hemingway 's unfinished novels

2208-564: Is the longest epic poem in the English language. Honoré de Balzac , the French novelist, completed nearly 100 pieces for his novel sequence La Comédie humaine , but a planned 48 more were never finished. Notes and plot outlines left behind by an author may allow a successor to complete a novel or series of novels. Frank Herbert left behind extensive notes related to his Dune universe , which led to son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson 's completing several prequels to

2300-547: Is the most famous, but Anton Bruckner 's Ninth Symphony is performed without a finale, and in Karl Amadeus Hartmann 's Gesangsszene , the final words of Jean Giraudoux 's text, left unset at the composer's death, are simply spoken by the soloist. Some other well-known examples of unfinished works completed by other hands include: Peter Schickele parodied the concept in his "Unbegun Symphony", which contains only movements III and IV because, as Schickele put it, "I

2392-508: The Solar System (Earth was never included), 82 years after it was originally performed. In August 2006 Pluto was officially demoted to a dwarf planet , meaning that Holst's original work now more accurately represents the Solar System. Some very famous 20th century operas have been left incomplete at their composers' deaths. Giacomo Puccini left the finale of Turandot unfinished and

2484-510: The basilica incomplete, it is still the most popular tourist destination in Barcelona with 1.5 million visitors every year. Gaudí spent 40 years of his life overseeing the project and is buried in the crypt. Also in Barcelona, construction on the Barcelona Cathedral started in 1298, but its dome and central tower were only finished in 1913, 615 years later. Germany's Cologne Cathedral took even longer to complete, from 1248 to 1880,

2576-532: The canvas before work begins, and sculptures are frequently planned using a maquette . These works-in-progress can be as sought after as (or even more sought after than) completed works by highly regarded artists because they help reveal the process of creating a work of art. Gian Lorenzo Bernini , a sculptor from the Baroque period, made his bozzetti (an Italian term for the prototype sculpture) from wax or baked terracotta to show those that had commissioned him how

2668-534: The follies of the late 16th to 18th century. There are many reasons for construction works being halted. Amongst others, they include a changing financial climate, unforeseen structural weaknesses, and a dramatic shift in the politics of a country. Work on the Palace of Soviets , a project to construct the world's largest building in Moscow, was halted when the city was attacked during World War II . Some buildings are in

2760-524: The "old house – the house of [their] forefathers" and are busily constructing a new world in the form of a modern seaside commercial town. The town of Sanditon is almost certainly based on Worthing , where Jane Austen stayed in late 1805 when the resort was first being developed. There is persuasive evidence that the character of Mr. Thomas Parker was inspired by Edward Ogle, Worthing's early entrepreneur, whom Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra knew. Sanditon is, however, less of an actual reality than an ideal of

2852-511: The Beatles led to " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " being released in the mid-1990s after the band members pieced together incomplete recordings by the deceased John Lennon . Both songs reached the top five in the British singles chart. In 1969, after releasing their self-titled album the year before, the Beatles began working on an album entitled Get Back , which was never completed. Most of

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2944-603: The Homeric myth, is commonly viewed as a move by Virgil to legitimize the Roman empire. For instance, the epic opens with a summary of the progress of Aeneas and his progeny (in John Dryden 's translation): Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expel'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in

3036-492: The Internet before their album has been completed. System of a Down 's 2002 follow-up to Toxicity , untitled at the time, was leaked onto the Internet as MP3 files. When the album was released under the title Steal This Album! the songs were significantly different from the work-in-progress, with different titles, lyrics and even melodies. There were some reports that the changes were a direct result of negative feedback about

3128-485: The Süssmayr version, a number of alternative completions have been developed by composers and musicologists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Gustav Mahler 's Symphony No. 10 was incomplete, with only drafts, sketches, and two mostly orchestrated movements existing at the composer's death. Several people have "completed" it with varying degrees of success, the most notable of these being Deryck Cooke 's "performing version of

3220-549: The architectures of modern computer systems. Still in computer science, the seminal work on algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth , has had only the first three of its seven planned volumes written. The first genuine historiographical work, the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides , was undergoing a major revision by the author at the time of his death, so different sections of it reflect

3312-410: The band members as well as between the band members and the record company executives, the band abandoned the project after completing numerous recordings slated for the project (which were included in later, less ambitious albums). In 2004, Wilson and writing partner Van Dyke Parks went into the studio, and newly recorded the material and released it as a completed solo album. That album was used as

3404-705: The carriage and improvement to Mr Parker's foot, the Parkers return to Sanditon, bringing Charlotte with them as their summer guest. Upon arrival in Sanditon, Charlotte meets the inhabitants of the town. Prominent among them is Lady Denham, a twice-widowed woman who received a fortune from her first husband and a title from her second. Living with Lady Denham is her niece Clara Brereton, a sweet and beautiful yet impoverished young lady. Also living in Sanditon are Sir Edward Denham and his sister Esther, nephew and niece to Lady Denham by her second husband. The siblings are poor and are thought to be seeking Lady Denham's fortune; Sir Edward

3496-458: The chance to complete their work before their death, and the recordings that are made public may be somewhat different from what had originally been intended. From a Basement on the Hill by Elliott Smith was released posthumously in 2004 with comments from the initial album producer saying that "[t]he record he would have delivered would [have] had more songs, would have had different mixes and [been]

3588-451: The common stock of oral tradition proved conducive to reworkings, revisions, and satires . Numerous writers of Greece 's golden age revived and reworked stories of the Trojan War and Greek mythology , although they were not strictly continuators as, for the most part, they did not invent or even extrapolate much from the received stories, choosing to alter the tone and treatment rather than

3680-478: The composer, are nonetheless augmented for non-musical reasons. In May 2000 composer Colin Matthews premiered his "completion" of Gustav Holst 's The Planets , whereby he composed a new movement for the ninth planet Pluto , giving it the name "Pluto, The Renewer". When Holst had written the original piece Pluto had not been discovered, and this addition therefore updated the suite to represent all known planets of

3772-411: The creator completed the work. Sometimes artworks are finished by others and released posthumously . Unfinished works have had profound influences on their genres and have inspired others in their own projects. The term can also refer to ongoing work which could eventually be finished (i.e. the creator is still living) and is distinguishable from "incomplete work", which can be a work that was finished but

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3864-567: The demise of Rumi . The Persian Bayán , a scripture from Bábism , was left unfinished when the Báb died. There have been some claims that the text has been completed by other people, though the Báb stated that it would be finished by [him] whom God shall make manifest. St. Thomas Aquinas abandoned his great work the Summa Theologica in 1273, citing a mystical experience during Mass. Its arguments for

3956-570: The design process to be more successful and efficient. Even without being constructed, many architectural designs and ideas have had a lasting influence. The Russian constructivism movement started in 1913 and was taught in the Bauhaus and other architecture schools, leading to numerous architects integrating it into their style. Before the advent of recording technology, all musical compositions were sketched on manuscripts. Often these manuscripts are roughly sketched, with drafting work scribbled over

4048-401: The doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town; His banish'd gods restor'd to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome. W. A. Camps expresses this common analysis of Virgil when he writes, "There is more than one reminder in the poem that its hero Aeneas

4140-475: The draft." Some compositions are finished "in the style of" the original composer, with someone who is highly familiar with the work adopting the same writing style and continuing the musical tone. Johann Sebastian Bach 's The Art of Fugue , which was broken off abruptly during Contrapunctus XIV , probably shortly before the death of the composer, was first published in the mid 18th century. Many reconstructions have been written, but in 1991 Zoltán Göncz used

4232-465: The eldest of the daughters still at home in the large family of a country gentleman from Willingden, Sussex . The narrative opens when the carriage of Mr and Mrs Parker of Sanditon topples over on a hill near the Heywood home. Because Mr Parker is injured in the crash, and the carriage needs repairs, the Parkers stay with the Heywood family for a fortnight. During this time, Mr Parker talks fondly of Sanditon,

4324-421: The eventual addition of further material. von Neumann never completed it, as by that time its distribution had already influenced an explosion in postwar computer development. Its elaboration of the stored program concept and formalization of the logical design of computer architecture—ideas not all of which were original to von Neumann but which he first expressed in the mathematical language he favoured—endure in

4416-399: The execution of an otherwise "finished" artwork: Leonardo da Vinci developed sketches and models for the 24-foot-tall (7.3 m) "Gran Cavallo" horse statue but the bronze to cast the sculpture was diverted to make cannons. Five hundred years later, two full-size sculptures were completed based on Leonardo's work. Technically his The Last Supper is unfinished. In most pictures it shows

4508-450: The existence of God continue to exert influence in philosophy and Christian theology more than 700 years later. In Greek philosophy, Plato 's Critias was unfinished when Plato died at age 80. The most influential document in computer science was John von Neumann 's First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC , a 101-page manuscript dating from 1946 and littered with ellipses and spaces for

4600-514: The family from the West Indies and the girls' school group are one and the same. The visitors consist of Miss Lambe, a teenaged Antiguan-English heiress, and the two Miss Beauforts, English girls just arrived from the West Indies. In short order, Lady Denham calls on Mrs. Griffiths to be introduced to Miss Lambe, the sickly and very rich young woman that she intends her nephew, Sir Edward, to marry. A carriage unexpectedly arrives bearing Sidney Parker,

4692-499: The favourite spot of all that are to be found along the coast of Sussex; – the most favoured by nature, and promising to be the most chosen by man. Because Austen completed setting the scene for Sanditon, it has been a favourite of " continuators " – later writers who try to complete the novel within Austen's vision while emulating her style. Such "completed" versions of Sanditon include: Unfinished work An unfinished creative work

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4784-484: The fifth volume, Redwood , in 2018, when poor sales forced its publisher, Pantheon Books , to drop support for it. Another famous example of an unfinished book series is George R. R. Martin 's dark epic high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire , which was planned to last seven books, but only five were published as of 2024 , due to the sixth book, The Winds of Winter , remaining in development hell after numerous delays since he began writing it circa 2010. When

4876-623: The final piece was intended to look. Eleven of these bozzetti were displayed in an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. Some museums specialise in collections of maquettes, such as the Museo dei Bozzetti in Pietrasanta , Italy. During the Renaissance , Donatello made sculptures that appeared unfinished by only sculpting part of the block, leaving the figure appearing to be stuck within

4968-482: The final scenes, with no clear outline for the last third of the story. The book was still published and the story can be followed despite the incomplete artwork. Many construction or engineering projects have remained unfinished at various stages of development. The work may be finished as a blueprint or whiteprint and never be realised, or be abandoned during construction. There are numerous unfinished buildings that remain partially constructed in countries around

5060-507: The form of a permutation fugue to make a strong argument as to the structure of the Fugue to come. (See external links.) Sir Edward Elgar was composing a Symphony No. 3 at the time of his death and left 130 pages of sketches. These sketches were put into a reasonable order, orchestrated in the style of Elgar, and elaborated by Anthony Payne . Payne's reconstruction has been played numerous times to great acclaim. Some works, deemed complete by

5152-479: The garden and surmises that they must have a secret understanding. When they arrive inside, Charlotte observes that a large portrait of Sir Henry Denham hangs over the fireplace, whereas Lady Denham's first husband, who owned Sanditon House, only gets a miniature in the corner – obliged, as it were, to sit back in his own house and see the best place by the fire constantly occupied by Sir Henry Denham. The people of "modern Sanditon", as Austen calls it, have moved out of

5244-408: The inhabitants – one that they express in their descriptions of it. These inhabitants have a conception of the town's identity and of the way in which this identity should be spread to, and appreciated by, the world: My name perhaps... may be unknown at this distance from the coast – but Sanditon itself – everybody has heard of Sanditon, – the favourite – for a young and rising bathing-place, certainly

5336-488: The leaked material. Some artists will try to ensure that their work is completed (as much as possible) before their health prevents them from continuing. Johnny Cash , aware of his failing health, made sure that he recorded the vocals for 60 more songs, with the music being completed after his death. These songs were compiled by producer Rick Rubin and released posthumously as American V: A Hundred Highways and American VI: Ain't No Grave . However, not all artists get

5428-490: The material. He called this technique " non finito ", and it has been used by several artists since then. In the age of mass media, incomplete work can reach an audience due to sheer demand for material by the artist. Tintin and Alph-Art , the 24th comic in Hergé 's popular The Adventures of Tintin series, was unfinished at his death. Though he had illustrated a significant part of the book, several sketched panels remained in

5520-445: The middle Parker brother. He will be staying in town for a few days with two friends who will join him shortly. Sidney Parker is about 27 or 28 years old, and Charlotte finds him very good-looking, with a decided air of fashion. The book fragment ends when Mrs Parker and Charlotte visit Sanditon House, Lady Denham's residence. There Charlotte spots Clara Brereton seated with Sir Edward Denham at her side having an intimate conversation in

5612-576: The missing music had to be provided by Franco Alfano for the premiere in 1926. Recently, Luciano Berio composed an alternative ending. Alban Berg had not yet finished orchestrating the third and final act of his opera Lulu at the time of his death in 1935. Due to objections from his widow, it was not until 1979 that a full version was performed, with the orchestration for Act 3 being completed by Friedrich Cerha using Berg's sketches. Other musical works which are unfinished but performable, are simply given in their incomplete state. Schubert's symphony

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5704-538: The modern sense: authors either inspired or hired to complete or continue a predecessor's concept. This habit was most noticeable in the most commercialized spheres of literature. Elizabethan drama , for example, is full of examples. As an instance of completion, Francis Godolphin Waldron completed The Sad Shepherd , a late unfinished play by Ben Jonson . As an instance of sequel-writing, John Fletcher 's The Tamer Tamed continues and lampoons Shakespeare's The Taming of

5796-644: The novel from various incomplete drafts. The size of a project can be such that a piece of literature is never finished. Geoffrey Chaucer never completed The Canterbury Tales to the extensive length that he originally intended. Chaucer had, however, already written much of the work at the time of his death, and the Canterbury Tales are considered to be a seminal work despite the unfinished status. English poet Edmund Spenser originally intended The Faerie Queene to consist of 12 books; even at its unfinished state—6 books were published before Spenser's death—it

5888-443: The original manuscript. Novels can remain unfinished because the author continually rewrites the story. When enough material exists, someone else can compile and combine the work, creating a finished story from several different drafts. Mark Twain 's The Mysterious Stranger was written in three different versions over a period of 20 years, none of which were completed. Twain biographer and literary executor Albert Paine combined

5980-471: The paintings of their mentors, such as Giulio Romano is believed to have done on Raphael 's Transfiguration , and Titian on Giorgione 's Sleeping Venus . Instead of completing another artist's masterpiece, particularly when many years have passed, unfinished works frequently inspire others to create their own version. Michelangelo left several unfinished sculptures and paintings, with sketches and partially completed paintings inspiring others. If

6072-491: The popular series. Mervyn Peake , author of the Gormenghast novels, meant to write a complete biography of the main character, Titus, but died after only completing three books in the series. The Familiar , a book series written by Mark Z. Danielewski and ambitiously planned to span 27 installments that are each over 800 pages long with interlocking characters and stories, prematurely stopped at less than 20% complete after

6164-719: The portion of the keel already constructed was broken up and used in building two smaller but similar ships, the MV Britannic and MV Georgic . In the 1970s the Hoan Bridge in Milwaukee , Wisconsin was out of use for five years after its construction when the connecting roads were not completed. In the 1980s, during the Iran–Iraq War , Iraqi president Saddam Hussein commissioned the Babylon project . The supergun design by Gerald Bull

6256-557: The possible missing content. Some theologians consider the Gospel of Mark , in its existing form, incomplete; the text after 16:8 is probably not original, thus creating speculation whether the author was arrested or died suddenly, or whether the end of the gospel could have broken away from the rest of the gospel as it was handed to the next person. The Sunni Islamic classic Qur'anic commentary, Mafatihu-l-Ghayb, better known as Tafseer Al-Kabeer ( Tafsir al-Kabir (al-Razi) ) by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

6348-409: The production. Arrive Alive was scrapped after a week of filming when the comedy was not living up to the screenplay. Shelving a film without it ever being released can be very expensive for the studios, with Arrive Alive costing $ 7 million. With so many people involved in filmmaking it is possible for a film to remain incomplete because of an injury or death. While a member of the crew (even

6440-400: The same fate: he died after filming most of The Crow , but the remaining scenes were played by stunt double Chad Stahelski , with Lee's face digitally composited onto the double. Continued delays can prevent a film from ever being completed. Something's Got to Give was a 1962 film with a difficult production history, which included the firing of leading lady Marilyn Monroe . She

6532-456: The second part or close out the story whatsoever. There is debate whether Stanley Kubrick 's last film Eyes Wide Shut was complete at the time of the director's death , three months before the movie was due to be released, as Kubrick had a history of continuing to edit his films up until the last minute, and in some cases even after initial public screenings. Continuator The development of European classical literature out of

6624-419: The series' television adaptation, Game of Thrones , finished adapting the first five books over the course of five seasons while Winds was incomplete, Martin was able to give the series showrunners an outline on what Winds ' story was meant to be like, so that they could continue the series uninterrupted and mix in some original content instead of disappointing fans with a delay of the final seasons of

6716-469: The series. Some works are presented as separate sections, each written at different times. This can lead to a piece appearing complete while the author actually intended for it to continue, or where other authors try to fake their own writing as part of the work. The first four cantos of Lord Byron 's narrative poem Don Juan were written in 1818 and 1819, with a further twelve completed and published before his death in 1824. Numerous "continuations" of

6808-465: The songs from Get Back were eventually used on the Let It Be album. The Beach Boys ' Smile is considered the most legendary unreleased album in the history of popular music. Recorded in 1966 and 1967, Smile was to be the followup to the album Pet Sounds (1966), but due to a plethora of reasons including project leader Brian Wilson 's deteriorating mental health and increased friction among

6900-411: The state they were in when work was halted. Alternatively, another artist may finish the piece. In some fields work may appear unfinished, but is actually finished, such as Donatello 's " non finito " technique in sculpture. Many acclaimed authors have left work incomplete. Some such pieces have been published posthumously , either in their incomplete state or after being finished by somebody else. It

6992-420: The stories and published his version six years after Twain's death. Similarly, J. R. R. Tolkien continuously rewrote The Silmarillion throughout his lifetime; a definitive version was still uncompiled at the time of his death, with some sections very fragmented. His son, Christopher Tolkien , invited fantasy fiction writer Guy Gavriel Kay to reconstruct some parts of the book, and they eventually published

7084-594: The stories. Latin literature , on the other hand, may be regarded as systematic continuators of Greek models. The pinnacle of Augustan literature , the Aeneid , is essentially a continuation of the Iliad : not only in that it follows a minor character from his imagined origins in Troy to his founding of Rome , but in that it continues a historical ethos. This move, by connecting the Roman empire both culturally and pseudo-historically to

7176-614: The story from the original book. Multi-part films like the animated The Lord of the Rings and entire film series can also end up being unfinished, in spite of ambitious plans. 20th Century Fox 's attempt to adapt Rick Riordan 's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series stopped after the second book, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters , when plans to adapt the third book, The Titan's Curse , fell through. Lionsgate Films ' plan to adapt Veronica Roth 's Divergent book trilogy also faced

7268-538: The story had been published by various publishing houses even between issues of the story, along with several fake conclusions. Byron had intended to continue the story, as evidenced by the find of the 17th canto after his death, but it is not clear how long the poem would continue or how it would conclude. It is still regarded as one of his greatest achievements. Charles Dickens was writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood in monthly installments when he died, completing just six of

7360-496: The studios. His death on 10 October 1985 came while he was working on The Other Side of the Wind and The Dreamers ; the former was completed in 2018 by Peter Bogdanovich . Animated films, though less vulnerable to problems such as the death of an actor, can still fail to be completed. The Thief and the Cobbler was a twenty-six-year animated film project by Richard Williams which

7452-528: The third designer withdrew from the project. The fourth and final plan was completed and some infrastructure was prepared for the site, but Ludwig died before construction work began. The Palace of Whitehall , at the time the largest palace in Europe, was mostly destroyed by a fire in 1698. Sir Christopher Wren , most famous for his role in rebuilding several churches after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sketched

7544-483: The top of the music, and have been found in unordered piles. Many unfinished symphonies have been pieced together from these original manuscripts by other composers, after the original author's death, with some remaining incomplete until many decades later. One of the most famous examples of unfinished musical compositions is Franz Schubert 's Symphony No. 8 in B minor , or as it is more commonly known, The Unfinished Symphony . Another famous unfinished classical piece

7636-430: The twelve intended. The story surrounded the murder of the titular Edwin Drood; because the story was never finished, the murderer was never revealed. The book was still made into a film and a musical , with the latter having the unusual concept that the audience members vote for who they think is the murderer. Other famous unfinished works of literature include Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe (a completion

7728-555: The work is to be done on commission but is not finished it is commonly passed on to another artist. Leonardo da Vinci's work on the Adoration of the Magi for the monastery of San Donato was halted when he left Florence for Milan . Still requiring an altarpiece , the monks employed Filippino Lippi to create one. Both paintings now hang in the Uffizi gallery. Paintings are usually sketched on

7820-550: The world, some of which can be used in their incomplete state, while others remain as mere shells. An example of the latter is the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. If finished, it would become the tallest hotel in the world and the seventh largest building but is uninhabitable and will not be completed due to the cost and the poor structural integrity. Some projects are intentionally left with an unfinished appearance, particularly

7912-425: Was born too late to write the first two movements." Since recording equipment has been an integral part of writing music it has been possible to use the original master tapes and demos to construct a song from the parts that had already been completed. Many demos are released officially if the artist has been unable (or unwilling) to complete it, or made available as a bootleg recording . The continued popularity of

8004-481: Was later rehired but died before filming started; without the delay the film might have been completed. In Orson Welles 's lifetime his unfinished films became legendary. For decades he worked on a version of Don Quixote , and he claimed that the film could be finished despite the deaths of his two leading actors. Citizen Kane remains one of the only films that was released as Welles intended, with most of his other films remaining incomplete or being changed by

8096-623: Was left unfinished and it was finished by either Qadi Shahab-ud-deen bin Khaleel al-Khauli, of Damascus (died 639 AH) or Shaikh Najm-ud-deen Ahmad bin Al-Qamooli (died 777 AH) as mentioned in Kashf-az-Zunoon. The Masnavi , the most famous poem in Sunni Islamic Sufi poetry by Rumi was left unfinished and it was later finished by Mufti Ilahi Baksh Kandhlawi about five hundred years after

8188-454: Was met with controversy. Several books were published, but it has been suggested that it is not within the jurisdiction of Hemingway's relatives or publishers to determine whether these works should be made available to the public. For example, scholars often disapprovingly note that the version of The Garden of Eden published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1986, though not a revision of Hemingway's original words, nonetheless omits two-thirds of

8280-462: Was never fully constructed after Bull's assassination in March 1990. Many projects do not get to the construction phase and are halted during or after planning. Ludwig II of Bavaria commissioned several designs for Castle Falkenstein , with the fourth plan being vastly different from the first. The first two designs were turned down, one because of costs and one because the design displeased Ludwig, and

8372-1088: Was provided by George Chapman ), Dream of the Red Chamber by Gao E (Chapter 80–120), Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol , Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert , Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson , The Living Corpse by Leo Tolstoy , The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek , Suite française by Irène Némirovsky , Answered Prayers by Truman Capote , The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald , Messias by Väinö Linna , Uncertain Times by Richard Yates , Sanditon by Jane Austen , Mount Analogue by René Daumal , The Pale King by David Foster Wallace , The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey by Patrick O'Brian , Georg Büchner 's Woyzeck , The Castle and Amerika by Franz Kafka, The Life of Klim Samgin by Maxim Gorky , The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil and Le Premier Homme by Albert Camus . Religious works have also been left incomplete, leading to debates about

8464-410: Was taken away from him and completed by Fred Calvert . The workprint of the original film became available as a bootleg, and there have been several attempts to restore the film, most notably Garrett Gilchrist's "Recobbled" cut. The 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings was not viewed by the studio as enough of a commercial success to warrant the funding of a sequel, thus not completing

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