id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1541 Epistolary novel - Wikipedia .html text/html 3626 357 68 Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love (Lettres de respect, d'obligation et d'amour) (1669), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet were expanded and became more and more distinct from the other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet (Lettres à Babet). John Cleland's early erotic novel Fanny Hill (1748) is written as a series of letters from the titular character to an unnamed recipient. Daniel Keyes's short story and novel Flowers for Algernon (1959, 1966) takes the form of a series of lab progress reports written by the main character as his treatment progresses, with his writing style changing correspondingly. Stephen King's novel Carrie (1974) is written in an epistolary structure through newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and book excerpts. In John Barth's epistolary work Letters (1979), the author interacts with characters from his other novels. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1541.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1541.txt