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The Epistolary Novel (from the Latin epistula, meaning "letter") is written as a series of in-story documents, often ones that are sent between one or more of the characters, such as letters. In the case of letters, it could be all from just one character, an ongoing correspondence between two characters or letters from a variety of characters addressed to a number of different people. Epistolary Novels can also involve diary entries or newspaper clippings, and since Technology Marches On, blogs or emails can be used as well. Which form the novel takes can affect how information is revealed to us. If it is monologic then what we'll have is a single, possibly biased, view, and we may have to read between the lines to get the subtext or to note the characterization that comes through. When between just two characters, these novels are often love letters, or the restriction to just two characters will be used to compare the intimacy between these two compared to the rest of the world. When dealing with many characters, which could be many-to-one, one-to-many or many-to-many, we can compare how one character treats two different characters, what they reveal in one case compared to another, etc. We can also return to the practice of revealing information not revealed to some of the characters and introduce Dramatic Irony. Later on, books evolved to start using other devices than just letters. This gave rise to the Scrapbook Story format, of which this can be considered a subtrope. An interesting case are epistolary novels that are co-written, i.e. have two authors. These can take the form of the two authors each adopting a character, and sending the in-character letters to the other author who responds with another in-character letter. This becomes comparable to a Role-Playing Play-by-Post Game. See also The Rashomon and Direct Line to the Author (authors will occasionally credit themselves as "compiler" or similar). Compare Log Fic. |
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Dangerous Liaisons is composed entirely of letters. | |
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Poison Ivy (2022): Most but not all of the issues are (illustrated) letters that Ivy sends to Harley, her Love Interest, about her evil antics, feelings for her, and angst over knowing she'll die. It adds an extremely personal touch to the comics and it's very much Played for Drama. | |
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The entirety of Frankenstein is related via a series of letters from a ship's captain to his sister. | |
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One of the stories in Bret Easton Ellis's collection The Informers is a series of letters written from a girl to Sean, the protagonist of his novel The Rules of Attraction. He never replies to any of them. | |
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A Memoir by Lady Trent: Turning Darkness Into Light is presented as a collection of letters, diary entries, and articles, though they include far more dialogue and detail than most diaries and letters. | |
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Bruce Coville's Book of... Spine Tinglers: Letters From Camp is exactly what it sounds like, with the narrator's letters to his parents. The final letter is from the camp staff, informing them of the conclusion of their son's stay at camp. | |
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The Handkerchief Files is a The Hobbit fanfic told entirely through letters between Gandalf and Saruman (with one letter from Radagast). | |
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Griffin And Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence is presented in the form of postcards exchanged between the eponymous characters. (As one character begins to descend into insanity, the astute reader will note that the cards no longer bear postmarks.) | |
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Across the Waking Sea, a side volume in the Dragon Age: Inquisition fic series Twice Upon an Age, consists entirely of letters exchanged between Varric Tethras and Bethany Hawke during the first 35 chapters of the main story. | |
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Fanny Hill by John Cleland, consists of two long letters from the title character to a woman addressed simply as "Madam." | |
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The Sorcery and Cecelia series, by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, consists entirely of letters written between two protagonists, each voiced by one of the authors. There are currently three books in the series, which is set in a Regency England with magic. | |
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The Woman Of Colour is divided into "packets" of letters, sent from the protagonist as she travels to England to her former governess in Jamaica. | |
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Though the podcast Alice Isn't Dead takes the form of a Captain's Log recorded by a driver in the cabin of her truck, it's also a monologic epistolary. In her logs, the narrator speaks throughout as though she's addressing her wife, Alice, occasionally adding commentary that implies she expects Alice to listen through them if they reunite. | |
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Cloud Atlas: The Letters from Zedelghem segment is formatted as a series of letters from Robert Frobisher to his good friend Rufus Sixsmith. | |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, is ostensibly the letters of a teenage boy to a stranger. | |
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Homestuck: Most dialogue between characters is delivered via online chatlogs. | |
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Dracula, by Bram Stoker, is written as a collection of letters, ship's logs, and diary entries. | |
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P.S. Longer Letter Later consists of two best friends sending letters to each other after one of them moves away. In the sequel Snail Mail No More, the friends are now sending e-mails. | |
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Daddy-Long-Legs, by Jean Webster, consists (apart from a prologue setting up the premise) solely of letters written by the protagonist, Judy Abbott to the title character, who is sponsoring her college education. The sequel, Dear Enemy, is comprised of letters from Judy's friend, Sallie; most of these are to Judy, but some are to other characters as well. | |
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: The entire book is a single long letter from the titular Mrs. Frankweiler to her long-time lawyer, Saxonberg. | |
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Cat's Play: A rare cinematic example. The bulk of the movie, at least two-thirds, consists of letters going back-and-forth between Giza and Erzsi. The letters are heard in voiceover, sometimes describing flashbacks, sometimes describing what is going on in the present day, like when Erzsi writes her sister a letter about how she confronted Viktor for cheating on her with Paula. | |
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The first third or so of The Next Frontier consists of a series of blog entries, mostly written by Jebediah Kerman, and the comments underneath them. Blog entries appear a few times throughout the rest of the story as a Captain's Log-esque framing device for a bit of exposition. It also functions as a Fourth-Wall Mail Slot, as the blog's comments and Q&A questions are nearly all supplied by the early readers of the story. | |
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Anne Frank framed her journal, published as The Diary of a Young Girl, in the form of letters to her imaginary friend Kitty. | |
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Letters to His Son is one made up of real letters, unlike most of the other examples. Of course, the Earl of Chesterfield had not exactly planned to publish them. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who has one in the Tenth Doctor adventure "Expiry Dating". Much of the story is told through letters written between Ten and River Song (though Five sends River a barrage of smitten letters, and we have Ten reading out an angry "stop bothering me" letter from One, and Six gets a answering-machine message) as River is trying to cajole Ten into raiding the Quantum Vatican's Apocalypse Vault with her. | |
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"Blind Alley": This story mixes internal government memos between BuOuProv (Bureau for the Outer Provinces) and Loodun Antyok with a cinematic third-person perspective of events. The memo format was inspired by Dr Asimov's time writing memos in service to the Naval Aviation Experimental Station. | |
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Stars is a Zootopia fanfic that takes the form of a string of e-mails and text messages exchanged between Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde during the latter's time at police academy. | |
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Ella Minnow Pea consists of letters written between the characters, demonstrating the effects of the increasingly stringent and hard-to-follow laws forbidding the use of certain letters of the alphabet. Some copies of the book feature the subtitle "A Novel in Letters". | |
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The books of Emily the Strange are written by Emily in diary form. | |
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The Further Adventures of Batman: "The Batman Memos" is written as a set of memos internal to Selznick International Studios during 1942, as they attempt to create a Batman film with the support of Wayne Enterprises. | |
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M*A*S*H had numerous episodes in which a character writes a letter to somebody (narrated in voiceover) and relates various anecdotes shown in flashback. "Dear Dad", "Dear Dad... Again", "Dear Dad... Three", and "A Full Rich Day" all have Hawkeye writing a letter (or, in the case of the latter episode, tape-recording a message) to his father in Maine. Not the entire episode, but "Bulletin Board" has a scene of Trapper John writing to his daughter in this manner. "Radar's Report" has Radar writing a weekly report to HQ. "Dear Mildred" has Colonel Potter writing to his wife. "Dear Peggy" has B.J. writing to his wife. "Dear Ma" has Radar writing to his mother. "Dear Sigmund" has Sidney Freedman writing a fanciful letter to Sigmund Freud while visiting the 4077. "The Most Unforgettable Characters" has Radar jotting down anecdotes for a creative writing course. "The Winchester Tapes" has Charles tape-recording a letter to his parents. "Dear Comrade" has a North Korean spy (serving as a houseboy to Charles) writing to his superiors. "Dear Sis" has Father Mulcahy writing to his sister the nun. "Dear Uncle Abdul" has Klinger writing to his uncle. "Letters" has all the characters writing to schoolchildren in Hawkeye's hometown. "Give 'Em Hell, Hawkeye" has Hawkeye writing to President Truman. |
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Red vs. Blue: Season six begins each episode with a dramatic reading of a memo from the Director of Project Freelancer to the Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee, or vice-versa. Who writes to whom alternates between episodes, so each episode begins with a reply to the memo sent in the previous episode. | |
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"Care of Cell 44" by The Zombies is addressed to the narrator's lover who's awaiting release from prison. | |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin is a series of letters all from one woman, concerning her son, whose disturbed personality gets slowly revealed as each letter passes. | |
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A Certain Droll Hivemind: The Framing Device is that Misaka-11111 was ordered to start a private diary by her psychiatrist. Of course, she's part of a ten-thousand person Hive Mind, so the "private" part isn't exactly easy. When she gets into a fight, she convinces Misaka-10901 to write for her while she's busy, and 10901 keeps inserting her own commentary. | |
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Beautiful Losers: The second part of the book is in the form of a letter written by F. to the narrator of the first part. | |
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The Bible, a Scrapbook Story taken all together: Paul's Epistles which are just that — epistles, i.e. letters. The Revelations of John of Patmos consist of letters to various Christian communities. |
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Correspondence From the Goddess is an ongoing Web Serial Novel published as a series of letters from Lydia Devin, a seemingly normal woman who unexpectedly became all-powerful, to humanity, with introductions from Elana Devin, her sister and conscience — at least, at first. | |
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A.S. Byatt's Possession revolves around a pair of modern day scholars discovering the letters of two fictional Victorian poets. Various diaries are also quoted at length. | |
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"Rejection Slips": The poem is actually three letters, each rejecting one of Isaac Asimov's manuscripts. Each letter uses its own style of poetry and personal address as a Homage to his most frequent publication editors. | |
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The Dead Zone has several sections which consist of letters written by main characters, along with occasional excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles. | |
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The Screwtape Letters is written from the Point of View of a mid-level devil who is trying to advise someone's shoulder demon. | |
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A Saturday Night Live sketch has a soldier write letters back and forth with his wife during World War I, only to discover all the questionable things she's been doing. | |
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Babe Ruth: Man-Tank Gladiator is written by a 39th century priest in the style of a 21st century Web Serial Novel. | |
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Eric LaRocca's horror novella Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke consists entirely of emails and chat logs between the two central characters. | |
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Lady Susan is composed entirely of letters between Lady Susan and the Marquise de Merteuil. | |
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While Sticky Business is a sticker shop simulator, you follow the stories of your regulars through their text messages. | |
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The Regarding The... series is told entirely in letters, official documents, transcripts, newspaper clippings, and the like. | |
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The Letters From Nicodemus are twenty-five letters from the titular Nicodemus to his old mentor. | |
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Early drafts of Sense and Sensibility were written as letters, under the name Elinor and Marianne. | |
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Love and Freindship (not a misspelling; that's how she spelled the title) was a self-parody written as a series of letters. | |
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Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! consists of letters between a young baseball player and her favorite pitcher. | |
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Northern Exposure had a tie-in book called Letters From Cicely, which was Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Highlights included Joel thanking his parents for sending him lox from New York and asking for a recipe, it being smoked salmon and all. | |
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Anne of Windy Poplars, chronologically the fourth book of the Anne of Green Gables series, is composed of Anne's letters to Gilbert while she is teaching at Summerside High School and he is attending med school. | |
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"A Letter To Elise" by The Cure is, presumably, a letter to Elise. | |
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Shadowrun and Cyberpunk have many sourcebooks that read this way, using combinations of internet postings, news article commentary, and chat room transcripts to advance the background stories. | |
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Gilead is a single, 260-page letter. The Rev. John Ames, who fathered a son at age 70 and is now dying of heart disease, is writing a testament to the boy who otherwise will have few memories of him, sharing memories of their family and his own life in the town of Gilead. | |
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Jaclyn Moriarty's Ashbury/Brookfield books are possibly the most creative example of epistolary narration. In order of publication, the books are Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Year of Secret Assignments, The Murder Of Bindy Mackenzie, and The Ghosts Of Ashbury High. | |
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The narration of Dear Esther consists of snippets of letters addressed to someone called Esther, voiced out by a male character as the player wanders around a haunted island. | |
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Count and Countess by Rose Christo is a series of letters that Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory secretly send to one another despite living one hundred years apart in time. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Yes, Apple Bloom, there is a Santa Hooves consists of a series of letters recording the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Applejack corresponding with Equestria's equivalent to Santa Claus. All the letters are done on real-life stationery. | |
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The appropriately named Doctor Who fanfic Epistolary: The 50 Years Before We Were Born is written as a series of letters and diary entries, following the lives of Amy and Rory after they were stranded in the 1940s at the end of "The Angels Take Manhattan". | |
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Love Letters to the Dead is made up of letters protagonist Laurel writes to various public figures who have died, including Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, and Amelia Earhart. | |
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Rainbow Dash, Please Report to the Principal's Office is told through texts between the characters. | |
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Z for Zachariah is written in the form of the main protagonist's diary. | |
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DC Fan Universe: News From the Nation #1 is written as an in-universe newspaper about the events around the formation of the Justice League. | |
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A modern version: exegesis is mostly composed of e-mails. | |
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Dear Mr. Henshaw is partially a diary written in the form of letters. The first several letters are really sent by the writer, a boy named Leigh, to his favorite author, the eponymous Mr. Henshaw. Eventually, as Leigh starts pouring out his heart more and more, Mr. Henshaw suggests that he keep a journal. Leigh originally addresses his journal entries to Mr. Henshaw, but gradually drops the habit as he gets used to journaling. | |
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The Naked Quidditch Match is written as a series of 'm-mails' between the characters in the days leading up to the aforementioned match. At the end, it switches to Lee Jordan' commentary on it, then Rita Skeeter's article supplies the epilogue. | |
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Freedom and Necessity, by Stephen Brust and Emma Bull — 100% letters exchanged between the main characters, with a few authentic excerpts from The Times mixed in for verisimilitude. | |
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The satirical novel Gog, besides the first chapter, is comprised of Gog's diary entries. | |
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The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is entirely a collection of letters: some addressed to God (naturally never mailed); some addressed to the heroine's sister; and some from the sister to the heroine. | |
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A Normal Lost Phone has the player investigating the contents of Sam's phone to find out why they left. | |
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Tin Soldiers tackles this topic with a twenty-first century twist. The fic is predominantly told as a series of Livejournal and tumblr posts, with a couple of tweets, some book excepters, and some headlines thrown in for good measure. | |
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