Works like Skibby Chronicle
Skibby Chronicle is later revealed and belongs to Before 1700. These works share its status, era, or form, ranked by how much they share.
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A Warning
The 2019 book credited to Anonymous, a senior Trump administration official. Miles Taylor revealed himself as the author in 2020.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Through Our Enemies' Eyes
The 2003 study of bin Laden published as 'Anonymous', required by the author's CIA employment. Michael Scheuer was identified and acknowledged the book.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.