Epistolary fiction books

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a series of journal entries from the English solicitor…

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

T. Smollett

The work is an epistolary comedy that opens with a series of letters written by a nameless narrator to…

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a vivid, almost cinematic report of a ferocious storm…

Eloisa: or, A series of original letters

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Eloisa, or, A Series of Original Letters is an epistolary work by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau that unfolds as a…

Love and Freindship [sic]

Jane Austen

Love and Friendship is an early epistolary work that presents itself as a series of letters exchanged among a…

Set in Silver

Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris); Williamson, A. M.

Set in Silver is an epistolary novel that opens with a lively letter from Audrie Brendon to her mother in…

"And That's How It Was, Officer"

Ralph Sholto

The work is an epistolary science‑fiction romp that begins as a letter addressed to a police officer, in…

Aurelian; or, Rome in the Third Century

William Ware

The work is a historical‑fiction epistolary set in the third‑century Roman world, presented as a series of…

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

George Horace Lorimer

The work is an epistolary didactic novel that strings together a series of letters from John Graham, the…

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is a didactic, epistolary novel that foregrounds moral instruction through the…

Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster

Jean Webster’s Daddy‑Long‑Legs begins in the austere world of a New York orphanage, where the oldest girl,…

Lady Susan

Jane Austen

Lady Susan is an epistolary novel that unfolds through a series of letters exchanged among a circle of…

Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Fanny Burney

Evelina is a satirical bildungsroman that follows a young woman of modest birth as she steps from a secluded…

Les liaisons dangereuses Lettres recueillies dans une Société et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres

Choderlos de Laclos

Ce roman épistolaire, signé Choderlos de Laclos, se présente comme une collection de lettres circulant dans…

Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale

Charles Brockden Brown

The work presents itself as a moral experiment in narrative form, an epistolary confession that promises to…

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1

Samuel Richardson

The work is an epistolary novel that presents its story through a succession of letters, a format highlighted…

Mémoires de Miss Coote: Exploits d'une fouetteuse britannique racontés par elle-même

Rosa Belinda Coote

The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)

Samuel Richardson

Lettres persanes, tome I

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de

Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 1 (of 2) or, Letters collected in a private society and published for the instruction of others

Choderlos de Laclos

Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster

Dangerous Connections, v. 1, 2, 3, 4 A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society.

Choderlos de Laclos

Like Another Helen

Sydney C. Grier

The Stark Munro Letters Being series of twelve letters written by J. Stark Munro, M.B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884

Arthur Conan Doyle