Throughout history, various works have been published anonymously, often due to their political or controversial nature. This is a list of works published anonymously, either attributed to "Anonymous", or with no specific author's name given. For works where a pseudonym was used, see instead the list of works published under a pseudonym. [edit] Early classics [edit] 15th century Modern pasquinades glued to the Pasquino statue in Rome. [edit] 16th century [edit] 17th century [edit] 18th century [edit] 19th century - The Turkish nationalist poet, translator, journalist, and social reformer Namık Kemal often published anonymously.
- Tamerlane and Other Poems was the first published collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, published anonymously in 1827.
- A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille, originally published anonymously after the author's death.
- The Log-Cabin Lady: An Anonymous Autobiography
- The Princess Ilsée: A Fairy Tale (London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1867), illust. by Eugène Froment
- Supernatural Religion: An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation (Longmans & Co.: London, 1874)
- Democracy published in 1880, author (Henry Adams) revealed after his death in 1918.
- Romance of Lust, Victorian erotic novel published anonymously in four volumes (1873-1876) and variously attributed to Edward Sellon or William Simpson Potter, although a stronger case can be made for Potter as the author.
- Elizabeth and Her German Garden, published anonymously in 1898, a humorous semi-autobiographical idyll, the first book by Elizabeth von Arnim. Her later books were published as "By the author of Elizabeth and her German Garden".
- The Way of a Pilgrim Russian
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