Know any good epistolary novels like Dracula?

Written by admin on September 1st, 2009


Epistolary novels. .like Dracula, the kind of novel that builds the plot through letters, diary/journal entries, news clippings. .

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3 Responses to “Know any good epistolary novels like Dracula?”

  1. powershaker Says:

    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  2. Fat Dragon - 胖龙 Says:

    The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky

    Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous (kinda… there’s a lot of speculation though)

    The latter two are diary style, while The Screwtape Letters is specifically through correspondence.

    Oh, and the USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos (brilliant novels, but hard to follow at times) includes a lot of the news clippings/newsreel stuff, but it’s not exclusively that way, and those are more of a Zeitgeist thing than a plot-progression thing.

    About a third of Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods is in the form of evidence lists, including blurbs of conversation, court hearings, pieces of physical evidence, bits of interviews, news clippings, and other such things. Not really epistolary, but quite unique and absolutely top-notch.

  3. Be Positive!!! Says:

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
    The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
    Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    Carrie by Stephen King
    The Plant by Stephen King
    The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
    Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
    Nothing But the Truth by Avi
    The Color Purple by Alice Walker
    The Prestige by Christopher Priest

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