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...and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her juvenilia, including the epistolary novels Love and Freindship, Lesley Castle, and Lady Susan, as well as her comic History of England and some shorter pieces. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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...his is in substance precisely what St. Augustine says to St. Jerome, in that celebrated epistolary dispute which was held between those two great doc... ...ure expresseth not, and proceeding to write treatises and books, which appear more like novels, fit only to amuse the idle. But, in one word, these ...

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... Portfolio Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f... ...ll and are rendered employable. The Technology of Law The Law of Technology An Epistolary Dialogue Between Roberto Calvo Macias and Dr. Sam Vak...

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... shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eight decades later. T... ...d of a self-aware Web. The Technology of Law The Law of Technology An Epistolary Dialogue Between Roberto Calvo Macias and Dr. Sam Vaknin "The ...

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...In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her uncertain parentage. Through a series of harrowing and humorous events that take place in Londo...

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Epistolary fiction

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...e Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love, which neatly undercuts the title. Written in epistolary form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything els...

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Epistolary fiction, Humor, Satire, Romance, Teen/Young adult

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...The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest)...

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Epistolary fiction, Mystery

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...The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters written by six different characters: Matt...

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... Mme. de Beauseant. Here is the letter, which may serve as a sample of the epistolary style peculiar to lovers, a performance which, like the drawings... ...e Alps, an Italian (to re- sume) made the following comment on some French novels which she had been reading. “I cannot see,” she remarked, “why these...

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...vel Newspaper, 143]) and (London: N. Bruce, 72 pp., 1842 (Series: Standard Novels, 5]). It also appeared by itself as “Imagination: A Tale for Young W... ...imagination gets the better of her, presumably because of reading romantic novels. This, of course, was a commonplace notion in the 1820s, except that... ... of her weakness: it was getting too serious for the light compositions of epistolary correspon- dence. We furnish a copy of the lines, as they me not...

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... all the rooms on one floor, and all the indecent propinquities that their novels described. It amused Newland Archer (who had 21 Edith Wharton secre... ...an revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ouida’s novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere. (They preferred those about ... ...s of scenery and the pleasanter sen- timents, though in general they liked novels about people in society, whose motives and habits were more comprehe... ... so happy.” “But then—why not be happier?” “We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?” “Why not—why not—why not?” She looked a little bor... ...some dark men- ace from abroad; then he reflected that he did not know her epistolary style, and that it might run to picturesque exaggera- tion. Wome... ...his authoritative text is reprinted from the Library of America edition of Novels by Edith Wharton, and is based on the sixth impression of the first ...

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... yet waiting.” The other is on gilt paper; and interests us like a sort of epistolary mummy now dead, yet which once lived and beneficently worked. We... ...ret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and oth... ... appears something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directin...

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...ibrary, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a dozen novels in paper on a shelf in the apartment of one of the Miss Varians. P... ... I don’t believe they’re very nice to girls; they’re not nice to them in the novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe t... ... novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the novels have a great deal of ability, but I don’t suppose they’re very acc... ...ity, but I don’t suppose they’re very accurate. We once had a lady who wrote novels staying here; she was a friend of Ralph’s and he asked her down. S... .... I lost no time, I fell in love with you then. It was at first sight, as the novels say; I 86 Portrait of a Lady know now that’s not a fancy phrase, ... ... years we might have a very pleasant correspondence. I shall have matured my epistolary style.” She looked away while she spoke these words, knowing t... ...th whom she was in regular correspondence. Isabel liked her friend’s private epistolary style better than her public; that is she felt her public lett...

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...read Lord Byron when I didn’t learn it to teach Exupere. I much prefer the novels of Ducray- Dumenil to all these English romances. I’m too good a Nor... ...cely permissible in any woman, even a Julie d’Etanges. Good God! what harm novels do!” “W e should live them, my dear father, whether people wrote the... ...ys as there were under Louis XIV. and Louis XV., and so they publish fewer novels. Be- sides, if you have read those letters, you must know that I hav... ... “his virtues, his noble qualities, his fine sentiments are nothing but an epistolary theft! The man who steals glory and a name may very likely—” “—b...

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...rary, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a dozen novels in paper on a shelf in the apartment of one of the Miss Varians. Pra... ... don’t believe they’re very nice to girls; they’re not nice to them in the novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the... ...ovels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the novels have a great deal but I don’t suppose they’re very accurate. We once... ... lost no time, I fell in love with you then. It was at first sight, as the novels say; I know now that’s not a fancy-phrase, and I shall think better ... ...els say; I know now that’s not a fancy-phrase, and I shall think better of novels for evermore. Those two days I spent here settled it; I don’t know w... ...ears we might have a very pleasant correspondence. I shall have matured my epistolary style.” She looked away while she spoke these words, knowing the... ...hom she was in regular cor- respondence. Isabel liked her friend’s private epistolary style better than her public; that is she felt her public letter...

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...e sanctioned; and they say, “a much greater license in conversation and in epistolary correspondence was permitted between the sexes than in our decor... ...Vanbrugh. 152 ‘ Astraea:’ Miss Bolin, author of obscene, but once popular novels. 236 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One For ever su...

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...poetry of Lord Byron, the painting of Gericault, the music of Rossini, the novels of Walter Scott. “Every one to his taste, maman,” he would say; “but... ...em never to understand my meaning. So to-day I am obliged to write without epistolary circumlocution. I feel for the misfortune which has overtaken yo...

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... efusa est sicut aqua—non crescat. He goeth to dancing-houses, and readeth novels—sat est.’ I endeavoured to parry these texts by observing, that the ... ... that the dancing-houses amounted only to one night at La Pique’s ball—the novels (so far as matter of notoriety, Darsie) to an odd volume of Tom Jone... ...have narrated in our own, has given great popularity to the publication of epistolary correspondence, as practised by various great authors, and by ou... ...h the next division, a form somewhat different from direct narra- tive and epistolary correspondence, though partaking of the character of both. CHAPT...

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...au may be said to have done for Switzerland what the author of the Waverly Novels did for Scotland, turning its mountains, lakes and islands, formerly... ...but more opulent every year. It, is one of the few romances written in the epistolary form that do not oppress the reader with a sense of languor and ... ...re at her ease after she began with literature, and at all events to write novels, letters, comedies, tales, and other trash of the same kind. But she... ...ct to their number, he has that in common with the most insipid writers of novels who attempt to make up for the sterility of their ideas by multiplyi... ...equal, the sim- plicity of the subject adds to the beauty of the work, the novels of Richardson, superior in so many other respects, cannot in this be...

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...bin’s Petition, what think you of this poor boy Leonard knowing few of the novels and none of the poems? No won- der the taste of the day is grovellin... ...ters they were, such as people wrote before the penny- post had spoilt the epistolary art—long, minute, and over- flowing with brilliant happiness. Se... ...ented the far too obvious construction thereof. ‘You must read lots of bad novels at Chatham, Aubrey; it is like the fag end of the most trumpery of t...

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...er with his cups and balls. We of this age, who have formed our notions of epistolary excellence from the chastity of Gray’s, the brilliancy of Lady M... ...pital works of Goethe into two classes, philosophic 183 Thomas de Quincey novels, and dramas. The novels, which we call philosophic by way of express... ... our books translated, but it is notorious to those acquainted with German novels, or other pictures of German society, that as early as the Seven Yea...

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... yet waiting.” The other is on gilt paper; and in terests us like a sort of epistolary mummy now dead, yet which once lived and beneficently worked. W... ...ecret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and o... ...e, appears something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directi...

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...himself: by his own action he reduces a man to the necessity of resorting to epistolary composition. And I am within my rights… .” Reading over hi... ...have me do then? Would you have me, madam, follow the example of some stupid novels, and melt into tears on a neighbouring hillock, gaz ing at the co...

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...but for this no other form could be devised than that of the Richardsonian novels. Only by the minutest detail, by endless particularities which bear ... ...y, as the foundation, a little ro- mance, which I loved to work out in the epistolary form. The subjects were impassioned, the style went beyond ordi-... ...esigns, larger and smaller plates, which came more and more into vogue for novels and po- ems. He etched very neatly, so that his work came out of the...

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...d rather than to come short of its exuberance. Hussein Effendi praised the epistolary style of Ibrahim Pa sha to the French traveller Botta, because ... ...onder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelist...

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... of that general’s first inspection of the field of action. The Countess’s epistolary English does small credit to her Fallow field educa- tion; but i... ...immensely of Sir Charles Grandison, and those frontispiece pictures to the novels we read when girls—I mean in manners and the ideas they impose—not i...