The Book of Letters: How to Write a Letter for Every Occasion

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William Loader, The Johannine Epistles. Epworth Commentaries. Peterborough: Epworth Press, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0716204800. pp.108. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the author] Finn Russell is a historian, he’s very interested in World War Two and he’s working in a small office space at the home. An old scrapbook is found by contractors in the damaged basement of Tall Trees, where the operating theatre used to be during the war and it belongs to a nurse called Elsie Watson. Finn and Stevie try to find out what happened to Elsie, they know she left the hospital in 1941 and that's it! The Anderson Tapes (1969, 1970) by Lawrence Sanders is a novel primarily consisting of transcripts of tape recordings. A family story for the twenty-first century, based on the phenomenally popular Texts from Bennett Tumblr blog, this epistolary novel chronicles the year that Bennett and the rest of his freeloading family moved into his cousin Mac's household" through text messages exchanged between Mac and his cousin Bennett.

The book takes alternating narratives through protagonist Lenny Abramov's diary and his love interest's "GlobalTeens" account (an instant messaging technology) Stephanie has a lot of people she’d like to speak to: her estranged brother, to whom her last words were in anger; her nan, whose dementia means she is only occasionally lucid enough to talk. partly this guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping that makes The Oxford Book of Letters so compelling. More than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicle the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicans to poets, from the famous to the unknown. Once upon a time, a very long time ago, a tribe faced life and death. Their conqueror demanded the people bow down to his pagan idols. This tribe of Semitic peoples always lived by the law of the land they were in. But this they could not do. B.A. du Toit, "The role and meaning of statements of 'certainty' in the structural composition of 1 John," Neotestamentica 13.1 (1979): 84-100.

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When nurse Elsie offers to send a reassuring letter to the family of a patient, she has an idea. She begins a book of last letters: messages to be sent on to wounded soldiers’ loved ones should the very worst come to pass, so that no one is left without a final goodbye. J.C. Coetzee, "Christ and the prince of this world in the Gospel and the Epistles of St. John," Neotestamentica 2.1 (1968): 104-121. Modern electronic communication methods are instant, direct and – and for the curmudgeon – charmless. In contrast, the golden age of letter writing, between the 18th and 20th centuries, is a store of countless remarkable correspondences, not just between historic figures but also between ordinary people. As our list highlights, the best collections of letters reveal the hopes, worries, excitement, desperation and humour of the great and the good.

Editors Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode have chosen a remarkable selection of correspondents both educated and barely literate, with styles that range from polished and witty to stumbling and artless, but who all share a gift for letters that display an immediacy and intimacy not shared by anyA book about the character of Renfield from Dracula and thus mimics the format of the novel. Excerpts from Bram Stoker's novel are integrated into the plot