Works like Lazarillo de Tormes
Lazarillo de Tormes is still unknown and belongs to Before 1700. These works share its status, era, or form, ranked by how much they share.
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Vertue Rewarded
A 1693 Irish novel of love and virtue during the Williamite war, published anonymously and never attributed.
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Actio Curiosa
An anonymous seventeenth century Hungarian dramatic work. No author has been identified in the documented record.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.