Editing Epistolary novel (section)

=== Eighteenth century ===
* ''[[Persian Letters|Lettres persanes]]'', a 1721 novel by [[Montesquieu]].
* ''[[Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded]]'', by [[Samuel Richardson]] 1740, a bestselling early epistolary novel which prompted artistic interest in the epistolary form.
* ''[[Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady|Clarissa]]'',  by [[Samuel Richardson]] 1748, Richardson's masterpiece and a milestone in epistolary writing.
*''[[Evelina]]'' by [[Frances Burney]], first published in 1778.
*''[[Julie; or, The New Heloise]]'', an epistolary novel by [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]], published in 1761.
* ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' is a 1774 novel by [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe]].
* ''[[Les Liaisons dangereuses]]'' is a 1782 French novel by [[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]], about the [[Marquise]] de Merteuil and the [[Vicomte]] de Valmont, two [[Narcissistic Personality Disorder|narcissistic]] rivals (and ex-lovers) who use seduction as a weapon to socially control and exploit others, all the while enjoying their cruel games and boasting about their talent for manipulation (also seen as depicting the corruption and depravity of the [[French nobility]] shortly before the [[French Revolution]]).  The book is composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other.
* ''Cartas marruecas'' (''Moroccan Letters''), a 1789 novel by [[José Cadalso]], Spanish author, poet, playwright and essayist.
* [[Marquis de Sade]]'s ''[[Aline and Valcour]]'' (1795).