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The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time, According to 750,000 Readers in the UK (2003)

Summary by Open Culture
In the eighteenth century, the readers of Europe went mad for epistolary novels. France had, to name the most sensational examples, Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes, Rousseau’s Julie, and Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses; Germany, Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werther and Hölderlin’s Hyperion. The English proved especially insatiable when it came to long-form stories composed entirely out of letters: soon after its publication in 1740, Samuel Ric…
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Open Culture broke the news in on Monday, October 20, 2025.
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