Epistolary Library

Public-domain epistolary fiction and chaptered novels, rendered as linked static HTML reading editions.

Books

Adolphe

Benjamin Constant · 1816

Benjamin Constant's French novella, rendered from Project Gutenberg with chapter and appendix sections preserved.

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897

Bram Stoker's documentary gothic novel, rendered as a chaptered reading edition that preserves the chapter-level journal, diary, letter, and newspaper headings from the Gutenberg text.

Eloisa; or, A Series of Original Letters

Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1761

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's epistolary novel, rendered as one HTML page per letter from the Project Gutenberg plaintext, including the inline correspondent headings used throughout the English translation.

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1818

Mary Shelley's frame-novel of scientific ambition and ruin, rendered as a sequential reading edition that preserves Walton's opening letters before Victor Frankenstein's numbered chapters.

Hunger

Knut Hamsun · 1890

Knut Hamsun's four-part novel, rendered as a sequential reading edition from Project Gutenberg's Part I / Part IV text.

Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece

Friedrich Hölderlin · 1819

Hölderlin's epistolary novel in Howard Gaskill's 2019 English translation, scaffolded from the Internet Archive plain-text OCR with Hyperion-specific letter-heading parsing.

Lady Susan

Jane Austen · 1871

Jane Austen's epistolary novella, rendered as one HTML page per letter with sequential navigation.

Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Peter Abelard and Héloïse · 1782

The six core letters of Abelard and Heloise, rendered as an epistolary reading edition from Project Gutenberg's 1782 English collection, including the prefatory historical account's transition into the letter sequence.

Life-tangles : or, The journal of Rhoda Frith

Agnes Giberne · 1896

Agnes Giberne's journal-shaped novel, included under the chaptered profile because Gutenberg exposes it as a clean Chapter I-XXIII sequence with embedded dated journal entries inside each chapter.

Love and Freindship [sic]

Jane Austen · 1790

Jane Austen's juvenile epistolary novella, normalized from the Project Gutenberg anthology plaintext to isolate the Love and Freindship section for the current epistolary pipeline.

Memoirs of Fanny Hill

John Cleland · 1749

John Cleland's two-letter epistolary novel, rendered as one HTML page per letter from the Project Gutenberg plaintext.

Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1864

Dostoyevsky's two-part novella, rendered as a sequential reading edition from Project Gutenberg's Part I / Part II text.

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson · 1740

Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel, rendered as one HTML page per letter from the Project Gutenberg plaintext.

Persian Letters

Montesquieu · 1721

A provisional published edition scaffold built from the cleaned Davidson English witness, with a translator's note front matter page.

The Diary of a Nobody

George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith · 1892

George and Weedon Grossmith's comic diary novel, rendered chapter-by-chapter while preserving each chapter's authorial synopsis.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett · 1771

Tobias Smollett's comic epistolary novel, rendered as one HTML page per letter using Gutenberg's direct "To ..." letter headers.

The Kempton-Wace Letters

Jack London and Anna Strunsky · 1903

Jack London and Anna Strunsky's epistolary novel, rendered as one HTML page per letter from the Project Gutenberg plaintext.

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne, vicomte de Guilleragues · 1669

The five-letter Portuguese-Nun sequence from Project Gutenberg, rendered as one HTML page per letter.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

J.W. von Goethe · 1774

Goethe's novel of emotional obsession and collapse, rendered as a sequential reading edition from Project Gutenberg's two-book text plus the editor's closing narration.

Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale

Charles Brockden Brown · 1798

Charles Brockden Brown's early American gothic novel, included under the chaptered profile because Gutenberg exposes it as a clean Chapter I-XXVII framed narrative rather than a top-level letter sequence.