PARIS: As a stylistic device, the letter has been pivotal to some of literature’s greatest plots. Consider Friar Lawrence’s tragically undelivered note in “Romeo and Juliet,” the stash of correspondence that provides the key to Kierkegaard’s “Diary of a Seducer,” or Mr. Darcy’s crisp, explanatory epistle to Elizabeth Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice.”
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