From the course: The Foundations of Fiction

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(peaceful music) - Hey Jill, what are you doing? - Oh, I'm writing a letter to my old schoolfriend back in England. - You're handwriting a letter? - I know, it's old school, isn't it? But there's nothing like getting a real letter in the mail. - So have you and your friend always written letters? - Yeah, always, like going back years. And it's great because we still have copies of all the letters we wrote to each other over the last maybe 20 years. - Wow, you could turn that into a book. - Hmm, I don't know if it'd be too interesting. (laughs) - But as you know some novels are told entirely through letters like Les Liaisons Dangereuses. - Or Dangerous Liaisons as we know it in English. - [Jessica] If you haven't heard of this book it's a classic French novel told entirely through letters between the two main characters, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use seduction as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others. - [Jill] The book tells a story just…

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