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Books in the Letters genre:

A Memoir of Jane Austen (1871)

This second edition of a family biography of the author contains previously unpublished works. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Jane Austen
James Edward Austen-Leigh
Illustrator(s): None

Letters of Jane Austen (1884)

A few of the author's letter were published in the Memoir, but this is the first substantial collection to appear. Read online at Archive.org: Volume 1,and Volume 2.... View More

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): None

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914)

Collection of letters describing of ranch life in southwestern Wyoming. The letters are dated from April 1909 to November 1913 and were printed originally in the Atlantic monthly.

Author(s): Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Radek and Ransome on Russia (1918)

An account of early Soviet Russia through the lens of Arthur Ransome and Karl Radek. It unveils the tumultuous period of the Russian Revolution with depth and insight. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Karl Radek
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): None

Beloved Lady (1956)

This is an Australian novel based on the Passion Letters.

Author(s): Barbara Jefferis
Illustrator(s): C. Walter Hodges

Jane Austen: A Family Record (1989)

This is a revised and updated edition of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record first published in 1913.  Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Signalling from Mars (1997)

Ransome lived through his correspondence, and this work begins with him in St Petersburg at the start of World War I, and includes a brief commentary as well as some of the drawings with which Ransome decorated his letters.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome

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