A bookshop offers two unknown novels with equally appealing descriptions. One names its author; the other promises to keep the author anonymous. Which are you more likely to try?

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Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility appeared in 1811 with an anonymous title-page attribution. That fact does not establish one single reason for her anonymity.

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