Epistolary novel

1848

Published in 1848, Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the diary of the eponymous tenant inside it.

1897

Printed in 1897, the novel is compiled entirely of letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams, doctor's notes, ship's logs, and the like. ==Types== Epistolary novels can be categorized based on the number of people whose letters are included.

1930

Wright's Clara Callan (2001) uses letters and journal entries to weave the story of a middle-aged woman in the 1930s. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot is a series of ten novels written in the form of diary entries.

1965

These are both real and imagined letters, written by the protagonist Moses Herzog to family members, friends, and celebrities. Up the Down Staircase is a novel written by Bel Kaufman, published in 1965, which spent 64 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.

1980

The 1985 film adaptation echoes the form by incorporating into the script some of the novel's letters, which the actors deliver as monologues. Octavia Butler's speculative fiction novels Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) are predominantly written as journal entries by the main character and protagonist, Lauren Olamina. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982) by Sue Townsend is a comic novel in the form of a diary set in 1980s Britain. John Updike's S.

1985

The 1985 film adaptation echoes the form by incorporating into the script some of the novel's letters, which the actors deliver as monologues. Octavia Butler's speculative fiction novels Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) are predominantly written as journal entries by the main character and protagonist, Lauren Olamina. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982) by Sue Townsend is a comic novel in the form of a diary set in 1980s Britain. John Updike's S.

2007

Another consists of transcripts of tapes, yet another consists of letters. Illuminae, by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufmann, is told exclusively through a series of classified documents, censored emails, interviews, and others. == See also == Epistolography Epistolary poem Letter collection List of fictional diaries List of contemporary epistolary novels == Footnotes == == External links == BBC Radio 4's 15 March 2007 edition of In Our Times, "Epistolary Literature".




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