KnowraEpistolary novelLinked fromLinked fromThe 52 pages that link to Epistolary novel, each with the reason it gives.All 52Broader topic 8Related 27Narrower topic 14Compared with 3FrankensteinNarrower topic: Walton’s correspondence gives the novel its outer documentary form.DraculaNarrower topic: Dracula’s actions emerge through assembled documents rather than a single narrator.Samuel RichardsonNarrower topic: Richardson’s major novels made this narrative form central to English prose fiction.The Color PurpleNarrower topic: Celie’s letters to God and Nettie provide the novel’s main narrative form.The Sorrows of Young WertherNarrower topic: Werther’s letters create the novel’s intimate, partial account of his emotional decline.The White TigerNarrower topic: Balram frames his story as letters to the Chinese premier.Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeNarrower topic: Depositions and Jekyll’s written confession deliver the novella’s final revelations.Fanny HillNarrower topic: Fanny’s retrospective account gives the narrative the intimacy of a private document.Abbé PrévostNarrower topic: Prévost’s first-person narrative frames draw on the period’s taste for documentary-seeming fiction.Memoirs of HadrianNarrower topic: Hadrian’s sustained letter to Marcus Aurelius supplies the novel’s frame and voice.AdolpheNarrower topic: A prefatory editorial frame makes the work’s narration feel like a discovered personal document.Clarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyNarrower topic: Clarissa’s letters and other documents supply the narrative rather than an external narrator.Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’ArgensNarrower topic: Several of d’Argens’s best-known works present philosophical debate through letters.Pierre Choderlos de LaclosNarrower topic: Laclos uses exchanged letters to reveal and conceal his characters’ schemes.