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unusual facts about Epistolary novel


Dear Dad

This was the first episode to use an epistle as part of the narrative, a device that would be used in later episodes.


Alma Alexander

In addition to her fantasy novels, Alexander has published a memoir about growing up in Africa and an epistolary novel (written with her husband, then an acquaintance from a Usenet newsgroup) about the NATO war in Yugoslavia.

Dear Esther

It instead places focus on its story, which is told through a fragmented, epistolary narrative as the player explores an unnamed island in the Hebrides.

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Étienne-Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Ignace Pivert de Senancour (Paris, 16 November 1770 – Saint-Cloud, 10 January 1846), was a French essayist and philosopher, remembered primarily for his epistolary novel Obermann.

Jože Javoršek

The epistolary novel Nevarna razmerja, a paraphrase of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos'es famous book Les Liaisons dangereuses, is written as a serial of partially authentic and partially fictitious letters between the author and several notable figures, both living and dead, among whom Vitomil Zupan, Boris Pahor, Pierre Emmanuel, Taras Kermauner, Dusan Pirjevec, and Francesco Robba.

Mark Dunn

Dunn seems to be particularly interested in constrained writing, with Ella Minnow Pea being a "progressively lipogrammatic" epistolary novel, and Ibid: A Life, comprised entirely from the endnotes of a fictional "lost" biography.

Marquis de Sade bibliography

Aline and Valcour (Aline et Valcour, ou le Roman philosophique, epistolary novel, 1788, pub. 1795)

Porte de Vincennes

The Porte de Vincennes is the place where the character, Valmont, dies in the epistolary novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses ('Dangerous Liaisons') by Choderlos de Laclos.

Revealer of Secrets

Revealer of Secrets, first published in 1819, is an epistolary novel by Joseph Perl, a proponent of Jewish emancipation and Haskalah.

The Coquette

The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster.

The History of Sir Charles Grandison

The novel incorporates an epistolary format similar to Richardson's previous novels, Clarissa and Pamela.


see also

Perks

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a 1999 coming-of-age epistolary novel by Stephen Chbosky; also refers to the film adaptation.