What is an epistolary novel?

An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. The word epistolary is derived from Latin from the Greek word ἐπιστολή epistolē, meaning a letter.

Classic epistolary works in this Golden Deer Classics compilation

- Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Armadale by Wilkie Collins
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- Lady Susan by Jane Austen
- Poor Folk by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
- Dracula by Bram Stoker