Great Books the Authors Never Completed

Discover fascinating great books that authors never finished. Explore incomplete masterpieces from renowned writers and the stories behind their unrealized potential.

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The Aeneid Cover
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The Aeneid

by Virgil

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long …
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The Riverside Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

This edition provides the general information on Chaucer's life, language, and works that one needs for a first reading of Chaucer, and difficult words and …
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The Trial Cover
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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power …
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The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. “An important book, valuable …
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The Castle

by Franz Kafka

From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with …
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In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah

by Marcel Proust

"This translation is a revised edition of the 1981 translation of Cities of the plain by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, published in the …
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The Love of the Last Tycoon

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Depicts the inner-workings of the Hollywood movie industry and its impact on the fabric of American life.
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 Cover
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1

by Robert Musil

Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and …
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 2

by Robert Musil

"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New …
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