Works published anonymously

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

one of China's Four Great Classical Novels

book by Thomas à Kempis

series of 85 essays arguing in favor of the ratification of the US Constitution

national epic of Turks, Azerbaijani and Turkmen

1748 treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

1554 Spanish novella

pamphlet by Thomas Paine

expansive Walt Whitman poetry collection

2nd century list of books; a proto-canon before the New Testament

work of political philosophy by John Locke

novel by Daniel Defoe

1791 erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade

spiritual and philosophical book that originated in Chicago sometime between 1924 and 1955

work by David Hume

1874 novel by Thomas Hardy

treatise by Thomas Malthus

erotic novel

1678 novel usually attributed to Madame de La Fayette

1823 poem attributed to Clement Clarke Moore

8th-century book on early Frank history

thumb|right|The first page of Ulalume, as the poem first appeared in the The American Review: A Whig Journal|American Review in 1847 "Ulalume" () is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound. Additionally, it makes many allusions, especially to mythology, and the identity of Ulalume herself, if a real person, has been a subject

1884 novel by unknown author

play often attributed to Shakespeare

1797 novel by Marquis de Sade

Philosophical work by Paul-Henri Thiry

autobiographical work by Marta Hillers

Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a science and subterranean fiction novel by the British politician and writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.

collection of satirical Latin letters which appeared in the 16th century in Germany

philosophical dictionary by Voltaire

didactic novel by François Fénelon

late 14th-century English mystical work

1819 poem by John Keats

play written by anonymous

essay by Robert Chambers

debut poetry collection (1827) by Edgar Allan Poe

book by various authors

medieval cookbook

thumb|right|400px|Map of part of New Zealand to illustrate Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited Erewhon: or, Over the Range () is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.

romance novel by Saddam Hussein

short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1748 novel by Denis Diderot

literary work

autobiographical work by Thomas De Quincey

book published anonymously by Claude Barbin

anonymous medieval text; compilation of two lists of proverbs, 22 in Aramaic and 22 in Hebrew, both arranged as alphabetic acrostics

novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer

travel literary genre in the medieval Latin literature

11B-X-1371 is a 2015 viral video sent to GadgetZZ.com, the Swedish tech blog that publicized it. The black-and-white segment is two minutes in length; its title came from the plaintext of a base64 string written on the DVD. It depicts a person wearing what appears to be a plague doctor costume walking and standing around in a dilapidated abandoned building, with a forest visible through former window openings in the wall behind it. Accompanied by a soundtrack of loud, discordant buzzing noise, the masked figure holds up a hand with an irregularly blinking light. The film did not have any credi

1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks

Book about the 613 mitzvot of the Torah.

novel by Walter Scott

1734 essay by Montesquieu

Book by Thomas Jefferson

French political tract

1655 French erotic text

Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess () is a French erotic novel first published in 1833. Its authorship is anonymous, but it is believed to have been written by Alfred de Musset, and it was rumoured that the lesbian eponymous heroine was a portrait of his lover, George Sand. It became a bestseller among nineteenth-century erotic literature.

book by William Hill Brown

novel by Clara Reeve