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An anonymous author is a writer who has chosen to keep their identity hidden from their readers. The reasons for this decision can vary, and may include political or social persecution, personal privacy concerns, or simply a desire to create a sense of mystery around their work. Some anonymous authors may have lived in times of censorship or political oppression, and chose to publish their work anonymously to avoid being punished or persecuted. Others may prefer to keep their personal lives separate from their writing, and choose to remain anonymous to protect their privacy. In some cases, anonymous authorship can also be a deliberate artistic choice, allowing the writer to focus on the work itself rather than their own identity. While anonymous authors may be lost to history in terms of their personal identities, their contributions to literature and other fields can still be valuable and enduring.

Books by Anonymous

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Beowulf

Adventure Action Fiction
Epic Heroic Dragon War

This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who saves the Spear-Danes from the terrible monster Grendel and his venomous mother. Lo...

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Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

Humour Fairy Tale
Children's Literature Young adult fiction

A comprehensive collection of tales and fairy stories edited by the American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. American culture is indebted to him for helping to spread, by his lectures as well as his writings, a love of good reading in the Uni...

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Romantic Poetry

Poetry
Anthologies

A collection of romantic poems for St Valentine’s day.

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Bed Time Stories for Aidan Christopher

Fiction Fairy Tale
Short Works

Bed Time Stories is a collection of 14 short stories especially for young children.

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 01

Crime Fiction
Detective Mystery Short Stories

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time...

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2

Crime Horror Fiction
Detective Supernatural Suspense Espionage

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time...

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3

Crime Horror Fiction
Thriller Short Stories Supernatural Suspense

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time...

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

Crime Horror Fiction
Detective Thriller Supernatural Espionage

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time...

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5

Crime Horror Fiction
Detective Short Stories Supernatural Espionage

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time...

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

Crime Horror Fiction
Thriller Supernatural Espionage

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time...

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Hymns of the Christian Church

Poetry Religion
Christianity Music

A collection of classic Christian hymns spanning the centuries. Some of the hymns are read; others are sung.

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The Dhammapada

Religion
Verses Scripture Buddhism

The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Budd...

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Relatos y Cuentos 001

Fiction
Short Stories

Recopilación de relatos y y cuentos de temas variados: humor, fantasía, y temas sociales, entre otros. (Resumen: Marian Martin)

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Relatos y Cuentos 002

Fiction
Short Stories

Recopilación de relatos y y cuentos de temas variados: humor, fantasía, y temas sociales, entre otros. (Resumen: Marian Martin)

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Historia de la célebre Reina de España Doña Juana, llamada vulgarmente La Loca

History Non-Fiction

Como implica el título, esta es una biografía de Doña Juana, conocida como Juana la Loca, hija de Fernando II de Aragón e Isabel I de Castilla, los Reyes Católicos.

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Buddhist Writings

Religion
Buddhism

An anthology of Buddhist scriptures, appropriate as an introduction to its vast literature, or as a sampler for those who want to better understand Buddhism. The selections in this anthology are primarily from the Theravada school of Buddhism

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Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists

Non-Fiction
Ancient

The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first men in the Western world to establish a line of inquiry regarding the natural phenomena that rejected the tradi...

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The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

Novel
Social Deception Picaresque novel Epistolary

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its anticlerical content. It was published simultaneously in three cities in 1554: Alcalá de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp. The A...

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English as She is Wrote

Humour Non-Fiction Reference work
Linguistics Comedy Writing

Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them. A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is wrote by the Inaccurate, By Advertisers and on Sig...

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Ecclesiastes

Religion
Christianity Bible

Ecclesiastes written c. 450–200 BCE, is one of the Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible and one of the "Wisdom" books of the Christian Old Testament. The title commonly used in English is a Latin transliteration of the Greek translation of the He...

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Presidential Farewell and Last Addresses

Political Science Essays
George W. Bush Bill Clinton

This collection will put in one place, all the Farewell (or last) Addresses made by each of the 43 ex-US presidents. The first, George Washington's "Farewell Address", issued as a public letter in 1796, was one of the most influential statements of...

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Best Russian Short Stories

Fiction
Short Stories Anthologies

In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of the powers, as well as some writers...

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The Mabinogion, Volume 1

Fiction
Ancient Short Stories

The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain. The stories were compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. There are two main source manuscripts, created c. 1350–1410, as well as a f...

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The Mabinogion, Volume 2

Fiction
Short Stories

This is the second of three volumes of The Mabinogion, a collection of some of the earliest tales from the British Isles. Lady Charlotte Guest translated the stories in Volume 2 from a 14th-century Welsh manuscript, The Red Book of Hergest. These sto...

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