India, Feb. 10 -- Quite a few famous authors have left behind unfinished works, prompting questions, competing interpretations and that insatiable urge among scholars to attempt their own endings. Even the distinguished literary genius Jane Austen is one such author.

But why are so many works left unfinished? Death, it seems, is the most common reason. The Grim Reaper's scythe has, unfortunately, cut short the lives of some of the most brilliant writers before they could complete the stories or poems they began. It is this cruel fate that has left us wondering what became of Charlotte Heywood, what truly happened to Edwin Drood, how Don Juan's story might have continued and how countless other unfinished narratives might have ended. Thes...