Few modern readers know that when Gulliver's Travels and Sense and Sensibility first appeared, the public had to guess their authors' identities. Yet many great writers, from John Donne to Sylvia Plath, from the Bronte sisters to Doris Lessing, chose to conceal their identity. Mullan's witty, lucid and engaging survey probes the reasons that lay behind literary anonymity, asks what is was like to read a book without knowing who wrote it, and amusingly recounts the guessing games the practice inspired. Slightly off-mint.
Many of the great books of English literature were first published without their authors' names upon them.
But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity of their first readers? Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, Anonymity looks at the ways in which the disguises of writers such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte were first used to tease readers (and bamboozle critics). It is a gripping and fascinating fast-paced tour of many of the greatest works in English, and will enrich and reward all who love to read.
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