Epistolary Fiction
The Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth
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William Hill Brown
The Power of Sympathy was the first American novel, published in Boston in January 1789. An epistolary novel, it tells the tragic story of t…
Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody
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Andrew Lang
"Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary nove…
Obermann
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Étienne Pivert de Senancour
This is a 1903 translation of Étienne Pivert de Senancour's immensely influential work Obermann. Although it was almost completely ig…
The History of Emily Montague Vol. II (Dramatic Reading)
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Frances Moore Brooke
The novel takes place 10 years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when Quebec becomes a British colony. Written as a collecti…
The History of Emily Montague, Vol. III (Dramatic Reading)
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Frances Moore Brooke
The novel takes place 10 years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when Quebec becomes a British colony. Written as a collecti…
Letters to a Daughter
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Hubert Bland
Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes …
The Nature of a Crime
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Joseph Conrad
The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and fina…
The History of Emily Montague, Vol. IV (Dramatic Reading)
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Frances Moore Brooke
The novel takes place 10 years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when Quebec becomes a British colony. Written as a collecti…
The Aristocrats
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Gertrude Atherton
Being the impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in The Great North Woods as spontaneously recorded in her letters to her fri…