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   Montesquieu's Persian Letters, published in 1721, used the epistolary novel form to satirize French society through fictional correspondence between Persian travelers.

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   Alice Walker's The Color Purple, an epistolary novel told through letters, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.

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   Bram Stoker's Dracula, published in 1897, is a well-known epistolary novel composed entirely of journal entries, letters, and newspaper clippings.

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   The epistolary novel format uses letters, diary entries, or documents as its narrative structure, placing the reader in the position of reading private correspondence.

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   Samuel Richardson's Pamela, published in 1740, is widely regarded as one of the earliest and most influential epistolary novels in English literature.

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