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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Published in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde follows an investigation into the conn...

19TH Century British Gothic Documents

9.42 Excellent

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Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

Through an extensive exchange of letters, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady traces the strug...

18TH Century Classic Tragedy English

9.20 Excellent

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Augustus

John Williams's Augustus, published in 1972, reconstructs the life of Rome's first emperor through fictional letters, di...

American Historical Ancient Rome Letters

9.18 Excellent

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Herzog

Saul Bellow's Herzog follows Moses Herzog, a middle-aged intellectual struggling with a broken marriage and a crisis of...

Classic American 20TH Century Literary

8.91 Great

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A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being connects the diary of a Japanese teenager, Nao, with Ruth, a Japanese-...

Japanese Literary Diary Letters

8.91 Great

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Persian Letters

Montesquieu’s *Persian Letters* presents a satirical critique of 18th-century France through a series of fabricated lett...

18TH Century Classic French Satire

8.74 Great

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Salt to the Sea

"Salt to the Sea" is a 2016 historical fiction novel written by Ruta Sepetys and published by Philomel Books. The narrat...

Historical World War Ii Young Adult Letters

8.72 Great

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Adolphe

"Adolphe" is an 1816 French novel by the Swiss-born author Benjamin Constant. The narrative follows a young, indifferent...

French 19TH Century Romance Letters

8.58 Great

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Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is an epistolary novel by the Italian writer Ugo Foscolo, published in an important revised...

Italian 19TH Century Tragedy Letters

8.22 Great

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The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Ugo Foscolo’s *The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis* presents a poignant narrative through a collection of correspondence. P...

Romantic Italian Classic 19TH Century

8.12 Great

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Oberman

Oberman is an epistolary novel, essay, and intimate journal by Étienne Pivert de Senancour, first published in France in...

French 19TH Century Philosophical Letters

8.08 Great

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Obermann

Obermann is a French epistolary novel written by Étienne Pivert de Senancour, first published in 1804. The narrative is...

French 19TH Century Melancholy Letters

8.04 Great

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The Diary of a Superfluous Man

The Diary of a Superfluous Man is a novella by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, published in 1850. Written in diary for...

Russian Realism 19TH Century Diary

7.58 Good

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Delphine

Delphine is an epistolary novel by Germaine de Staël, published in 1802. Set against the backdrop of the French Revoluti...

Classic French 19TH Century Romance

7.56 Good

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Redgauntlet

Redgauntlet is an 1824 historical novel by Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. The narrative is structured partly as an ep...

Classic 19TH Century Historical Scottish

7.42 Good

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Leonora

Leonora is an epistolary novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth, first published in 1806. Told primarily throug...

Classic 19TH Century Romance Irish

6.84 Fair

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Godwi

Godwi oder Das steinerne Bild der Mutter is a novel by Clemens Brentano, published in two parts in 1801 and 1802. Writte...

German Romantic 19TH Century Letters

6.72 Fair

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The Black Robe

*The Black Robe* is an 1881 epistolary novel by English author Wilkie Collins that critiques the manipulative influence...

Classic 19TH Century Mystery Gothic

6.71 Fair

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Letters from Hell

Letters from Hell is a Danish religious novel by Valdemar Adolph Thisted, first published in Copenhagen in 1866 under th...

Classic Danish 19TH Century Supernatural

6.48 Fair

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Clara Howard

Clara Howard is an epistolary novel published in 1801 by the American writer Charles Brockden Brown. Told through letter...

Classic American 19TH Century Sentimental

5.88 Mediocre