epistolary

It takes courage to adapt an epistolary novel for the screen, particularly one as psychologically complex as this one.

It bore only two notes and the morning journals, but he knew that within the week it would groan under its epistolary burden.

So far it was easy to recognize the tone--from " Daddy-Long-Legs" and " Molly-Make-Believe, " sprightly and sentimental epistolary collections enjoying a vogue in the States.

His first thought was of some dark menace from abroad; then he reflected that he did not know her epistolary style, and that it might run to picturesque exaggeration.

There was no need to mess it up with bells and whistles, although I did add a number of epistolary interludes (passages from fictional books, a diary entry, letters, teletype bulletins) between narrative segments.