# Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters

> An epistolary work told through a series of letters, in the eighteenth-century tradition of the novel in correspondence, unfolding its story and sentiment through the exchange of written confidences.

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## About
There was an age when the most intimate stories were told entirely in letters, and to open such a book is to become the reader over the shoulder, privy to confidences never meant for other eyes.What it's aboutThis work presents its story through a series of original letters, in the epistolary manner so beloved of eighteenth-century readers. The correspondence unfolds a narrative of feeling and relationship among its writers, allowing character and sentiment to emerge directly from their own words on the page. In the tradition to which its title alludes, love and its trials furnish the emotional heart of the exchange.ThemesThe letter form itself is part of the subject, prizing intimacy, sincerity and the immediate voice of feeling. The book is concerned with the movements of the heart, with sentiment and moral reflection, and with the particular truthfulness that the eighteenth century believed private correspondence could reveal. Emotion is confided rather than described, giving the whole a quality of confession.Why it still mattersThe epistolary novel shaped the development of English fiction and the modern novel's interest in inner life, and works in this form preserve a distinctive way of telling a story that has largely passed from fashion. For students of the period and lovers of literary history, such a book offers a window onto eighteenth-century sentiment and the origins of the novel of feeling.Who it's forFor readers interested in eighteenth-century literature and the epistolary tradition, for students of the early novel, and for anyone who enjoys the intimacy of a story told entirely through letters.

## Specifications
- language: en
- format: paperback