Unfinished Books (Book Guide): Aeneid, on War, the Salmon of Doubt, Tintin and Alph-Art, Pensees, an Island in the Moon, Heroides

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 51. Chapters: Aeneid, On War, The Salmon of Doubt, Tintin and Alph-Art, Pensees, An Island in the Moon, Heroides, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, History of the Peloponnesian War, Taboo, Pharsalia, The Secret Doctrine, Anacalypsis, Elements de geometrie algebrique, Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am', De vulgari eloquentia, Double Heroides, The Book of Lost Tales, The Pencil of Nature, Unfinished Tales, The Black March, Le Paysan parvenu, God and the State, The Peoples of Middle-earth, The Lost Road and Other Writings, Legacy of Cain, Tales from the Secret Annex, Le Thermozero, The Lays of Beleriand, La Vie de Marianne, The First Man, Battle Studies, Sunset at Blandings, Night of the Aurochs, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Tahdhib al-Athar, Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, On Certainty, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Wedding Preparations in the Country. Excerpt: An Island in the Moon is the name generally assigned to an untitled, unfinished prose satire by William Blake, written in late 1784. Containing early versions of three poems later included in Songs of Innocence (1789) and satirising the "contrived and empty productions of the contemporary culture," An Island demonstrates Blake's increasing dissatisfaction with convention and his developing interest in prophetic modes of expression. Referred to by W.B. Yeats and E.J. Ellis as "Blake's first true symbolic book," it also includes a partial description of Blake's soon-to-be-realised method of illuminated printing. The piece was unpublished during Blake's lifetime, and survives only in a single manuscript copy, residing in the Fitzwilliam Museum, in the University of Cambridge. The overriding theory as to the main impetus behind A...