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  1. Is it that Thillers are about trying to find something or prevent something - ie, it's more about an event or quest, whereas Crime is about a dead body and someone trying to work out who committed the murder?
  2. Thank you, Jänet. And I am so sorry for putting you to that trouble. I am such an idiot sometimes (Sometimes? Always! )
  3. Ooops, sorry. I've found the answer. Ought to have searched a bit more before posting the question (In case anyone is interested, it's a painting of Lady Mary herself, attributed to Jonathan Richardson.)
  4. Can anyone tell me the artist and title of this gorgeous cover, please. http://tinyurl.com/okdvesa Sometimes the "Look Inside" feature at Amazon allows a view of the back cover, where that information would be given. But it goes to a different edition for this title.
  5. It's on mine too, Marie Frankie did suggest it earlier in the thread, but thank you for passing it on too. I'd love to know what you think of it if you get to read it before me.
  6. I have read some of his letters to children, and those are fab. So, thanks, Hayley, I will look into his diaries and such too.
  7. Your description of the 1880s, vodkafan, completely alters my views of those times! I simply had no idea it was anything like that. In particular, Frenchmen hiding in London to avoid military service. How fascinating. Is that touched upon in any novels of the time? And just as I was thinking, how clever to rewrite Dangerous Liaisons as tweets, novels were already dealing with stories told through telegrams! Thanks for those links. I'm going to take a look now.
  8. Well, that's kind of you, frankie. Thank you. The ability to edit here has appeared and if it wasn't for your explanation of the 10-message intro, I would have ended up sitting here wondering how I missed the "edit" button before I saw that wiki page you mention: astonishing, that huge gap in the C19th, isn't it.
  9. This is astonishing! I was unaware they had bombs back then, let alone terrorist attacks. And mail order catalogues? How fascinating.
  10. There must be some truth to it, I suppose, but it will be interesting to see if there was more than that.
  11. The short answer why: yes, just that really - I like them and want more. The long answer: About 25 years ago I discovered C18th literature, read Clarissa, and was hooked both on the C18th as a time and epistolary novels as a form. (I also like collections of real letters.) Apart from simply liking them, it is a way to vicariously indulge my fantasy of having pen friends. The truth - the sad truth - is that I am the world's worst letter writer ever and wouldn't be able to carry on a correspondence. As to why 19th century, well this year I have decided to read mostly titles from the Penguin Classics and Oxford World's Classics ranges. Apart from the Brontë sisters, Great Expectations, Jane Austen and a handful of other novels from that century, I am in the dark. It's always seemed a less than inviting period of smoke-shrouded cities and towns full of wage-slaves eking out their lives for rich industrialists. Ohh, wait a minute, and I getting mixed up with the 21st century here? Anyway, I've decided to see what novels from the time are really like, and was curious to know if there were epistolary novels written then. That was a bit convoluted, wasn't it? I ought to have stuck with the short answer.
  12. Good suggestion, but I think it's another of those where the major part is told in one huge chunk. Ideally, I want a novel told in lots of letters, rather like the examples I've given (but which are all eighteenth century), or like the Letters of Two Brides which frankie recommended. Frances Burney's books are well worth reading, aren't they? I do like those. Eighteenth century books I do know about, but am almost wholly ignorant of nineteenth century novels.
  13. Sorry, I can't work out how to edit my earlier post, so will have to do it this way. frankie, Poor folk also looks to be just what I'm looking for. Thank you
  14. And on the subject of Dangerous Liaisons, this is fun https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86686/DangerousTweets.pdf
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