Anonymous essays
Anonymous essays and periodical writing were standard practice for centuries; the essays here are the ones whose bylines became stories.
3 works.
- Later revealed
Anti-Machiavel
Frederick the Great's 1740 rebuttal of Machiavelli's The Prince, published anonymously by Voltaire. The royal authorship was an open secret from the start.
- Still unknown
Narrative of Some Things of New Spain and of the Great City of Temestitan
An eyewitness account of Aztec Mexico by a member of Cortes's expedition, known to scholarship only as the Anonymous Conqueror.
- Later revealed
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
The 1844 evolutionary sensation that prepared the ground for Darwin, published with elaborate secrecy. Robert Chambers was revealed in the 1884 twelfth edition.
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