A reference directory of anonymously published works: documented reveals, open mysteries, and free full texts.https://anonymouscanon.com/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/a-brief-inquiry-into-the-natural-rights-of-man/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/a-brief-inquiry-into-the-natural-rights-of-man/A nineteenth century treatise on natural rights published without an author's name. No attribution has entered the documented record, and the writer remains unidentified.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/a-strange-manuscript-found-in-a-copper-cylinder/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/a-strange-manuscript-found-in-a-copper-cylinder/James De Mille's satirical lost-world novel, serialized anonymously in 1888 after the author's death. The attribution is documented in De Mille scholarship.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/a-warning/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/a-warning/The 2019 book credited to Anonymous, a senior Trump administration official. Miles Taylor revealed himself as the author in 2020.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/a-woman-in-berlin/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/a-woman-in-berlin/An anonymous diary of a woman's survival in Berlin during the Soviet occupation of 1945. The diarist was identified after her death as journalist Marta Hillers.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/actio-curiosa/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/actio-curiosa/An anonymous seventeenth century Hungarian dramatic work. No author has been identified in the documented record.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/amduat/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/amduat/An ancient Egyptian netherworld book describing the sun god's journey through the twelve hours of night. Like all Egyptian funerary literature, it names no author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/american-writers/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/american-writers/John Neal's 1824 to 1825 survey of American authors, published in Blackwood's Magazine under the signature X.Y.Z. The first history of American literature, attributed and documented.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/an-essay-on-the-principle-of-population/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/an-essay-on-the-principle-of-population/The 1798 treatise arguing population growth outruns subsistence, published anonymously. Its author, T. R. Malthus, put his name to the expanded 1803 second edition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/anti-machiavel/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/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.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/beowulf/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/beowulf/The Old English epic of the hero's fights with Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon. Its poet is unknown, and the single surviving manuscript names no author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-caverns/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-caverns/An ancient Egyptian netherworld book depicting the sun god's passage over six caverns of the underworld. No author is recorded in the tradition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-dede-korkut/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-dede-korkut/The epic story cycle of the Oghuz Turks, framed around the legendary bard Korkut Ata. Its compilers are unknown; the bard is the frame, not a documented author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-the-dead/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-the-dead/The ancient Egyptian collection of funerary spells guiding the dead through the afterlife. Tradition associates such texts with the god Thoth; no historical author exists in the record.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-the-earth/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-the-earth/An ancient Egyptian funerary composition showing the sun's night journey through the earth god Aker. Anonymous, like all Egyptian netherworld books.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-the-heavens/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-the-heavens/A group of New Kingdom compositions charting the sun's passage across the sky and through the body of the sky goddess Nut. No author is recorded.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-the-netherworld/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/book-of-the-netherworld/The family of ancient Egyptian compositions describing the underworld's geography and the sun's night journey. All are anonymous products of priestly tradition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/bourbon-kid/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/bourbon-kid/A supernatural horror series begun in 2000 with The Book with No Name, published by an author who has remained anonymous by choice ever since.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/brother-jonathan-or-the-new-englanders/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/brother-jonathan-or-the-new-englanders/John Neal's 1825 novel of New England life, published anonymously in Edinburgh. The attribution to Neal is documented in scholarship on the author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/cantar-de-mio-cid/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/cantar-de-mio-cid/The Castilian epic of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Cid, composed around 1200. The poet is unknown; only the copyist Per Abbat's name survives in the manuscript.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/chilam-balam/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/chilam-balam/The Yucatec Maya books of prophecy, history, and medicine, compiled by unnamed town scribes and attributed by tradition to the priest Chilam Balam.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/coffin-texts/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/coffin-texts/The Middle Kingdom corpus of Egyptian funerary spells painted on coffins, ancestor of the Book of the Dead. Composed anonymously within priestly tradition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/common-sense-pamphlet/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/common-sense-pamphlet/The January 1776 pamphlet that made the case for American independence, signed only 'an Englishman'. Thomas Paine acknowledged authorship within months.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/corpus-hermeticum/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/corpus-hermeticum/Greek wisdom dialogues from Roman Egypt, pseudepigraphically attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus. Their actual authors are unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/de-dubiis-nominibus/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/de-dubiis-nominibus/An early medieval Latin grammatical treatise on nouns of doubtful gender, compiled by an unnamed grammarian.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/debate-between-bird-and-fish/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/debate-between-bird-and-fish/A Sumerian disputation poem in which Bird and Fish argue their worth before the god Enki. Composed some four thousand years ago by unnamed scribes.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/democracy/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/democracy/The 1880 satirical novel of Washington power and corruption, published anonymously. Henry Adams's authorship was kept secret until after his death.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/diaries-of-court-ladies-of-old-japan/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/diaries-of-court-ladies-of-old-japan/Heian court diaries by Japanese noblewomen, transmitted in a tradition where several diarists' personal names were never recorded.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/diary-of-an-oxygen-thief/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/diary-of-an-oxygen-thief/A 2006 confessional novel published anonymously in Amsterdam, narrated by an advertising man who recounts cruelty and comeuppance. Its author has remained anonymous.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/dream-of-the-red-chamber/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/dream-of-the-red-chamber/China's great eighteenth century novel of the Jia family's rise and fall, circulated anonymously in manuscript. Cao Xueqin's authorship was established by modern scholarship.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/dresden-codex/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/dresden-codex/The finest surviving pre-Columbian Maya manuscript, an astronomical and ritual almanac painted by unnamed scribes around the eleventh to thirteenth century.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/elizabeth-and-her-german-garden/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/elizabeth-and-her-german-garden/The 1898 comic journal of a garden and a marriage, published anonymously. Its author became famous as 'Elizabeth', later known as Elizabeth von Arnim.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/enchiriadis/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/enchiriadis/The ninth century 'Enchiriadis' pair of music treatises that first systematized Western polyphony. Their authors are unknown; an old attribution to Hucbald was rejected.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/enuma-elis/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/enuma-elis/The Babylonian creation epic in which Marduk defeats Tiamat and orders the cosmos. Composed by unnamed priests, probably in the second millennium BCE.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/eridu-genesis/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/eridu-genesis/The Sumerian flood story, in which the gods send a deluge and king Ziusudra survives in a boat. Its composers are unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/fantasmagoriana/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/fantasmagoriana/The anonymous 1812 French anthology of German ghost stories that the Byron-Shelley circle read in 1816, sparking Frankenstein. Its translator-compiler was Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/frankenstein/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/frankenstein/Mary Shelley's 1818 novel of the scientist and his creature, published anonymously with a preface by Percy Shelley. Her name appeared on the 1823 second edition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/gesta-hungarorum/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/gesta-hungarorum/The oldest surviving Hungarian chronicle, written around 1200 by an author who signed only 'P. dictus magister', known ever since as Anonymus.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/go-ask-alice/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/go-ask-alice/The 1971 book marketed as a real teenager's drug diary, credited to Anonymous. It is now documented as the work of Beatrice Sparks.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/hurrian-hymn-to-nikkal/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/hurrian-hymn-to-nikkal/The oldest surviving notated music in the world, a hymn to the goddess Nikkal from Ugarit, around 1400 BCE. Composer unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/hypnerotomachia-poliphili/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/hypnerotomachia-poliphili/The lavish 1499 Venetian dream romance whose chapter initials spell an acrostic pointing to Francesco Colonna. The identification remains likely but unproven.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/i-ching/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/i-ching/The ancient Chinese divination classic. Tradition credits legendary figures such as Fuxi and King Wen; its actual formation was gradual and its authors are unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/imperial-hubris/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/imperial-hubris/The 2004 critique of the war on terror published as 'Anonymous'. Its author was identified in the press as CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who acknowledged the book.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/instructions-of-shuruppak/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/instructions-of-shuruppak/Sumerian wisdom literature framed as a father's counsel to his son Ziusudra, among the oldest surviving literature. Its framing sage is legend, its writers unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/jack-pots/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/jack-pots/A 1900 collection of poker stories published under the byline Eugene Edwards, believed by card scholarship to be another pseudonym of the unidentified S. W. Erdnase.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/josefine-mutzenbacher/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/josefine-mutzenbacher/The 1906 Viennese erotic novel published anonymously and commonly attributed to Felix Salten, author of Bambi. The attribution has never been confirmed.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/kesh-temple-hymn/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/kesh-temple-hymn/One of the oldest surviving works of literature, a Sumerian hymn praising the temple of Kesh. Tradition links the Temple Hymns to Enheduanna, but this hymn predates her.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/key-of-solomon/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/key-of-solomon/The most famous of the grimoires, attributed by its own tradition to King Solomon. Its actual medieval and Renaissance compilers are unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/la-farce-de-maitre-pierre-pathelin/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/la-farce-de-maitre-pierre-pathelin/The greatest French medieval farce, in which a trickster lawyer is out-tricked by a shepherd. Written around 1460 by an unknown playwright.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-eridu/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-eridu/A Sumerian city lament mourning the destruction of Eridu, the oldest of cities. Composed by unnamed scribes in the early second millennium BCE.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-nippur/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-nippur/A Sumerian lament for the religious capital Nippur and its restoration by king Ishme-Dagan. Its composer is unnamed.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-sumer-and-ur/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-sumer-and-ur/The Sumerian lament for the fall of the Ur III empire to Elamite invasion, around 2000 BCE. Composed anonymously in the scribal tradition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-ur/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-ur/The masterpiece of the Sumerian city laments, mourning Ur's destruction through the voice of the goddess Ningal. Its poet is unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-uruk/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lament-for-uruk/A Sumerian city lament for Uruk, Gilgamesh's city, destroyed in the collapse around 2000 BCE. Composed by unnamed temple scribes.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lazarillo-de-tormes/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lazarillo-de-tormes/The 1554 Spanish novella that founded the picaresque, published anonymously to dodge the Inquisition. Despite centuries of candidates, its author remains unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/letting-ana-go/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/letting-ana-go/A 2013 young adult novel in diary form about anorexia, published by Simon and Schuster under the byline Anonymous, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/litany-of-re/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/litany-of-re/A New Kingdom Egyptian funerary text invoking the sun god in seventy five forms. Produced by priestly tradition; the record names no author, only 'the clergy'.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/logan/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/logan/John Neal's 1822 Gothic novel of frontier violence and revenge, published anonymously in Baltimore. The attribution is documented in Neal scholarship.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lucy-in-the-sky/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/lucy-in-the-sky/A 2012 young adult diary novel of a teenager's descent into drug use, published under the byline Anonymous in the Go Ask Alice tradition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/memoirs-of-a-russian-princess/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/memoirs-of-a-russian-princess/An 1890 anonymous erotic novel purporting to be a Russian princess's confessions. Its actual author was never established.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/might-is-right/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/might-is-right/The 1896 social Darwinist tract published as Ragnar Redbeard. Arthur Desmond is the most commonly claimed author, with Jack London also proposed; the question is unsettled.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/musica-enchiriadis/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/musica-enchiriadis/The ninth century treatise that first taught polyphony in the West. Long attributed to Hucbald, an attribution now rejected; its author is unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/my-immortal/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/my-immortal/The notorious 2006 to 2007 Harry Potter fan fiction posted under the handle XXXbloodyrists666XXX. A 2017 authorship claim was publicly contested and remains unverified.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/narrative-of-some-things-of-new-spain-and-of-the-great-city-of-temestitan/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/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.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/o-a-presidential-novel/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/o-a-presidential-novel/The 2011 novel of a presidential campaign published as by Anonymous, someone 'in the room'. Press analysis identified former McCain aide Mark Salter.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/one-thousand-and-one-nights/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/one-thousand-and-one-nights/The great Arabic story cycle of Scheherazade, assembled over a thousand years from Indian, Persian, and Arabic sources by unnamed storytellers and compilers.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/pasquinade/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/pasquinade/The anonymous satirical verses posted on Rome's 'talking statues' since the fifteenth century, aimed at popes and the powerful. Anonymity was the whole point.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/pierre-marteau/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/pierre-marteau/The fictitious imprint 'Pierre Marteau of Cologne' under which printers across Europe issued banned and scandalous books for two centuries.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/poetic-edda/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/poetic-edda/The Old Norse collection of mythological and heroic poems preserved in the Codex Regius. Long misattributed to Saemundr the Learned; its poets are unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/primary-colors/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/primary-colors/The 1996 roman a clef of a Clintonesque campaign, published as Anonymous. Joe Klein denied authorship, then admitted it six months later.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/pyramid-texts/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/pyramid-texts/The oldest religious texts of ancient Egypt, carved in pyramids from the twenty fourth century BCE. Institutional priestly compositions with no recorded author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/recipes-for-disaster-an-anarchist-cookbook/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/recipes-for-disaster-an-anarchist-cookbook/The 2004 direct action handbook published by the CrimethInc. collective, whose contributors are deliberately unnamed as a matter of principle.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/remarks-on-cruelty-to-animals/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/remarks-on-cruelty-to-animals/A 1795 pamphlet against cruelty to animals, issued by the reformist printer George Nicholson without an author's name.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/rolling-thunder/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/rolling-thunder/An anarchist journal of eleven issues, 2005 to 2014, published by the CrimethInc. collective with deliberately unnamed contributors.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/romance-of-lust/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/romance-of-lust/The four volume Victorian erotic novel of 1873 to 1876, published anonymously. Attributed variously to Edward Sellon or William Simpson Potter; unresolved.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/scolica-enchiriadis/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/scolica-enchiriadis/The ninth century dialogue commentary on Musica enchiriadis, foundational to Western music theory. Formerly attributed to Hucbald; author unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/seventy-six/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/seventy-six/John Neal's 1823 novel of the Revolutionary War, credited on its title page to 'the author of Logan'. The attribution to Neal is documented.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/The late fourteenth century masterpiece of Middle English romance. Its author, called the Pearl poet, has never been identified.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/skibby-chronicle/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/skibby-chronicle/A sixteenth century Danish chronicle found walled up in Skibby church, written anonymously. Scholarship identifies the Carmelite Poul Helgesen as its author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/spell-of-the-twelve-caves/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/spell-of-the-twelve-caves/An ancient Egyptian funerary composition enumerating twelve caves of the underworld and their gods. Anonymous priestly tradition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/st-erkenwald/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/st-erkenwald/A fourteenth century alliterative poem in which a pagan judge's corpse speaks to a bishop of London. Sometimes linked to the Pearl poet; author unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/supernatural-religion-an-inquiry-into-the-reality-of-divine-revelation/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/supernatural-religion-an-inquiry-into-the-reality-of-divine-revelation/The anonymous 1874 critique of the New Testament's miracle evidence that convulsed Victorian theology. Walter Richard Cassels was identified in his lifetime.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/tales-of-the-dead/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/tales-of-the-dead/The anonymous 1813 English ghost story anthology drawn from Fantasmagoriana, translated and edited by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, with a story of her own added.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/tamerlane-and-other-poems/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/tamerlane-and-other-poems/Edgar Allan Poe's 1827 debut, credited only to 'a Bostonian'. Around a dozen copies survive of the most valuable anonymous debut in American letters.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-aesop-romance/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-aesop-romance/The ancient Greek folk biography of Aesop the fabulist, composed and elaborated by unknown hands over centuries.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-animated-skeleton/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-animated-skeleton/A 1798 Gothic novel published anonymously by the Minerva Press, in which apparent supernatural terror hides human machinery. Its author was never identified.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-autobiography-of-a-flea/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-autobiography-of-a-flea/The 1887 Victorian erotic novel narrated by a flea observing its owner's corruptions. Published anonymously; the author remains unidentified.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man/The 1912 novel of a biracial man who passes as white, published anonymously as a memoir. James Weldon Johnson credited himself in the 1927 reissue.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-battle-of-maldon/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-battle-of-maldon/The Old English poem of the 991 battle against Viking raiders and the loyalty of Byrhtnoth's men. Its poet is unknown.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-book-of-gates/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-book-of-gates/The New Kingdom Egyptian netherworld book of the twelve gates of the night. An institutional priestly composition with no recorded author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-bride-stripped-bare/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-bride-stripped-bare/The 2003 erotic novel of a wife's secret life, submitted for anonymous publication. The press identified Nikki Gemmell just before publication, and she acknowledged it.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-cavern-of-death/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-cavern-of-death/A 1794 Gothic chapbook romance of murder revealed in a haunted forest cavern, published anonymously and never attributed.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-expert-at-the-card-table/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-expert-at-the-card-table/The 1902 bible of card sleight of hand, self-published as S. W. Erdnase. The identity behind the pseudonym is card history's most famous unsolved question.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-great-organ-in-the-boston-music-hall/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-great-organ-in-the-boston-music-hall/An anonymous 1865 descriptive pamphlet on the celebrated Boston Music Hall organ, of the kind institutions issued without named authors.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-incest-diary/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-incest-diary/A 2017 memoir of childhood sexual abuse by a father, published anonymously to protect its author. The anonymity is deliberate and is respected here.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-lady-of-escalot/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-lady-of-escalot/The medieval Arthurian tale of the maiden who dies for love of Lancelot, transmitted anonymously in the romance tradition.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-log-cabin-lady/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-log-cabin-lady/A 1922 anonymous memoir of a frontier-born woman's education in manners and marriage to a diplomat, published without a name to protect its author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-princess-ilsee/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-princess-ilsee/A nineteenth century literary fairy tale of the Ilse valley in the Harz mountains, published anonymously and never attributed.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-second-shepherds-play/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-second-shepherds-play/The masterpiece of English medieval drama, from the Wakefield cycle, written by an unnamed playwright scholars call the Wakefield Master.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-secret-history-of-the-mongols/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-secret-history-of-the-mongols/The oldest surviving Mongolian literary work, an inside chronicle of Genghis Khan written after his death in 1227 by an unnamed court author.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-sorrows-of-yamba/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-sorrows-of-yamba/A 1795 abolitionist poem in the voice of an enslaved African woman, published anonymously in the Cheap Repository Tracts. Hannah More's authorship is documented.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-strange-death-of-adolf-hitler/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-strange-death-of-adolf-hitler/A 1939 book claiming Hitler died in 1938 and was replaced by doubles, published anonymously as a purported insider account. Its author was never identified.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-string-of-pearls/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-string-of-pearls/The 1846 to 1847 penny dreadful that created Sweeney Todd. Authorship is divided by scholars between James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-way-of-a-pilgrim/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/the-way-of-a-pilgrim/The Russian spiritual classic of a wanderer practicing the Jesus Prayer, first published in 1884 from an anonymous manuscript. Its author remains debated.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/theophrastus-redivivus/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/theophrastus-redivivus/The clandestine 1659 Latin compendium of atheist argument, the boldest irreligious text of its century. Its compiler has never been identified.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/through-our-enemies/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/through-our-enemies/The 2003 study of bin Laden published as 'Anonymous', required by the author's CIA employment. Michael Scheuer was identified and acknowledged the book.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/under-the-greenwood-tree/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/under-the-greenwood-tree/Thomas Hardy's 1872 idyll of the Mellstock parish choir, his second published novel, issued anonymously. Later editions carried his name.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/vertue-rewarded/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/vertue-rewarded/A 1693 Irish novel of love and virtue during the Williamite war, published anonymously and never attributed.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/vestiges-of-the-natural-history-of-creation/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/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.https://anonymouscanon.com/works/voynich-manuscript/https://anonymouscanon.com/works/voynich-manuscript/The fifteenth century codex written in an undeciphered script and an unknown language. Author, purpose, and meaning all remain unidentified.