![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two centuries later, Bram Stoker would contribute to this tradition with Dracula. ![]() The style almost adds an implied neutral narrator handing you the sources. Loosely based on a real Lord and his sister-in-law in a scandal in 1962 London, the anonymous story being written as intimate letters made it seem more authentic (and, in this case, salacious) to readers. According to English Literature Professor Evan Gottlieb, the first epistolary novel in English was Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister in 1684. While we’ve learning about the past through correspondence (sometimes spicy, but often pretty boring) for centuries, if not longer, the novel part implies made-up elements. Other popular epistolary books (across genres and settings) include The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, The Martian by Andrew Weir, and Dear Haiti, Love Elaine by Maritza Moulite. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel in which readers are presented with different first- and second-person sources that, when read together, tell the story. Today is May 3, meaning that if you read the first chapter and read each proceeding chapter with the corresponding date, you can read the book in real-time. If you’ve always wanted to read the story of Dracula but only really think about it around Halloween or in times of vampire fervor (like any season of What We Do In The Shadows), you’re in luck. ![]()
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