I recently finished “Letters To A Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke and it got me wondering if there were actually any similar ‘letter format’ books, preferably classics, addressed to the reader. Thank you!
I don’t know if this counts but Frankenstein is framed through a collection of letters from Captain Robert Walton to his sister Margaret (who is the reader)
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The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is another classic, and Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Dracula by Bram Stoker is a correspondence as well.
You also have a few books that address the reader in other ways, like the playful “If on a winter’s night a traveler” by Italo Calvino
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I don’t know if this counts but Frankenstein is framed through a collection of letters from Captain Robert Walton to his sister Margaret (who is the reader)
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is another classic, and Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Dracula by Bram Stoker is a correspondence as well.
You also have a few books that address the reader in other ways, like the playful “If on a winter’s night a traveler” by Italo Calvino