In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.

Starting in the 18th century, the epistolary form was subject to much ridicule, resulting in a number of savage burlesques.

The epistolary form nonetheless saw continued use, surviving in exceptions or in fragments in nineteenth-century novels.

Mary Shelley employs the epistolary form in her novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ).

In the late 19th century, Bram Stoker released one of the most widely recognized and successful novels in the epistolary form to date, Dracula.

While the novel draws on the epistolary form, by the end of the story it reduces it, along with other media, to a monstrous " mass of typewriting ".

* C. S. Lewis used the epistolary form for The Screwtape Letters ( 1942 ), and considered writing a companion novel from an angel's point of view — though he never did so.

*" The Fan " ( 1977 ) by Bob Randall is a thriller in epistolary form.

* Alice Walker employed the epistolary form in The Color Purple ( 1982 ).

The epistle is not written in the same form as the other biblical epistles, lacking an epistolary opening or conclusion.

In 1457 the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla wrote: "... the claim of ' Dionysius '... that he observed the eclipse of the sun at the hour of the Saviour's death ... is as blatant a fiction as the epistolary form of the report.

In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.

Jane Austen wrote the first draft of the novel in the form of a novel-in-letters ( epistolary form ) sometime around 1795 when she was about 19 years old, and gave it the title, Elinor and Marianne.

Although few were bothered by the epistolary style, Richardson feels obligated to continue his postscript with a defence of the form based on the success of it in Pamela.

He quickly adopted the epistolary novel form, which granted him " the tools, the space, and the freedom to develop distinctly different characters speaking directly to the reader ".

The characters of Pamela, Clarissa, and Grandison are revealed in a personal way, with the first two using the epistolary form for " dramatic " purposes, and the last for " celebratory " purposes.

Leo Braudy described the benefits of the epistolary form of Clarissa as, " Language can work: letters can be ways to communicate and justify ".

The novel deals with its theme of self-reflection also on the level of narratology in that its main topic of mindreading is presented by an omniscient narrator ; a minor ironic twist consists of the novel-within-a-novel motif with the fictitious novelist Helen Reed pondering about the old-fashioned genre of the epistolary novel while her thoughts are presented the very form of letters / emails.

The implicit moral message – that a girl ’ s chastity has eventual value as a commodity – as well as the awkwardness of the epistolary form in dealing with ongoing events, and the triviality of the detail which the form necessitates, were some of the main targets of Fielding ’ s parody.

Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six different characters: Matthew Bramble, a Welsh Squire ; his sister Tabitha ; their niece and nephew, Jery and Lydia Melford ; Tabitha's maid Winifred Jenkins ; and Lydia's suitor, Wilson.

In epistolary form, main character Raymond Marks, a 19-year old from Manchester, tells the story of his life in letters to his hero Morrissey.

:" Hyperion " can also refer to the epistolary novel Hyperion by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin.

Plot can also be structured by use of devices such as flashbacks, framing and epistolary elements.

Although epistolary works can be considered multiple-person narratives, they also can be classified separately, as they arguably have no narrator at all — just an author who has gathered the documents together in one place.

The novel is epistolary in form: aside from opening and closing chapters consisting entirely of dialog, the story is told through documents, such as memos from the office, fragments of notes dropped in the trash can, essays that are handed in to be graded, lesson plans, suggestions dropped in the class suggestion box, and letters written by Barrett to a friend from college who chose to get married and start a family rather than pursue a career.

* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ( 2001 ) is described as a " progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ": the plot of the story deals with a small country which begins to outlaw the use of various letters, and as each letter is outlawed within the story, it is ( for the most part ) no longer used in the text of the novel.

Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include Anthony Trollope's short story Malachi's Cove and the Williamsons ' epistolary novel Set in Silver, 1909 ( by Charles and Alice Williamson ).

Passion is the only known epistolary musical, with parts of the story being told through letters.

The epistolary narrative voice uses a ( usually fictional ) series of letters and other documents to convey the plot of the story.

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun were written in the same style as " The Heroides ", a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid, and " Lettres d ' Héloise à Abélard ", a medieval story of passion and Christian renunciation.

This story most notably appears in the second poem of Ovid's Heroides, a book of epistolary poems from mythological women to their respective men, and it also appears in the Aitia of Callimachus.

Doctor Glas, an epistolary novel by Hjalmar Söderberg, tells the story of a physician in 19th century Sweden who deals with moral and love issues.

The novel's narrative technique of using letters, interviews, a fictional news story ( see false document ), and real historical documents harks back to, and to some extent satirizes, the conventions in place early in the history of the novel, when the epistolary novel was the most common form.

Heisserer's professional screenwriting career was launched with the sale of The Dionaea House to Warner Bros. in 2005, based on an online epistolary story of the same name that he wrote in October 2004.

Clara Howard and Jane Talbot have been regarded sometimes as relatively conventional works distinct from the earlier novels because they have classic epistolary form and concern domestic issues that seem very different from the violence and sensationalism of the first four novels.

The concerns of the nouvelle classique ( love, psychological analysis, moral dilemmas and social constraints ) are also apparent in the anonymous epistolary novel Lettres d ' une religieuse portugaise ( Letters of a Portuguese Nun ) ( 1668 ), attributed to Guilleragues, which were a sensation when they were published ( in part because of their perceived authenticity ).

However, a character like Harriet is able to express herself fully, and it is possible that Grandison is prohibited from doing likewise because of his epistolary audience, the public.

Told from Foster ’ s point of view and based on the real life of Eliza Whitman, this epistolary novel is about a woman who is seduced and abandoned.

* Fyodor Dostoevsky used the epistolary format for his first novel, Poor Folk ( 1846 ), as a series of letters between two friends, struggling to cope with their impoverished circumstances and life in pre-revolution Russia.

With several of these friends, Strauss carried on vigorous epistolary exchanges later in life, many of which are published in the Gesammelte Schriften ( Collected Writings ), some in translation from the German.

Werther is an opera (' Drame lyrique ') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, based on the German epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, based partly on fact and Goethe's own early life.

Pamela is an epistolary novel, like Behn's Love Letters, but its purpose is to illustrate a single chapter in the life of a poor country girl.

Seventeen surviving letters are ascribed to Chion, but they are no doubt spurious and may have been written by one of the later Platonists whose intention was to write an epistolary novel based on Chion's life.