Found manuscripts

Description
Fiction using the framing device of the "found manuscript" which the author has prepared for publication; the book may or may not include fictional editorial commentary and the frame story is not necessarily a major part of the narrative.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
48,681 members
1,238 reviews
4.1
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41,993 members
417 reviews
½ 3.4
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
36,041 members
533 reviews
4.1
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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
24,691 members
271 reviews
4.1
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9,283 members
151 reviews
½ 3.6
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Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
9,044 members
157 reviews
4.2
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Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
8,137 members
100 reviews
4.1
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Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
4,114 members
58 reviews
3.8
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The House of the Dead
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3,761 members
37 reviews
3.9
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The Last Man
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
2,025 members
45 reviews
3.2
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Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Maturin
1,864 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
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The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson
1,803 members
56 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Iron Heel
by Jack London
1,770 members
43 reviews
½ 3.4
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Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
by Stanisław Lem
1,166 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Testament of Gideon Mack
by James Robertson
971 members
32 reviews
3.8
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Peter Schlemihl
by Adelbert von Chamisso
806 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
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Pepita Jiménez
by Juan Valera
627 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Man of Feeling
by Henry Mackenzie
469 members
7 reviews
½ 2.6
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Esau and Jacob
by Machado de Assis
380 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
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33 Moments of Happiness: St. Petersburg Stories
by Ingo Schulze
161 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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Confessing a Murder
by Nicholas Drayson
117 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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Explanations
bluepiano: (The Evolution of Inanimate Objects is in some ways quite similar & also uses framing device.)
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Triangulum
by Masande Ntshanga
78 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Book of Khalid
by Ameen Rihani
48 members
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Winterbienen
by Norbert Scheuer
47 members
3 reviews
4.2
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The compass stone
by Fernando Arrabal
47 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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Moss
by Klaus Modick
42 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
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Ananios of Kleitor
by George Economou
14 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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Explanations
bluepiano: Text is fragment only & given every suitable critical apparatus. Various commentators. Have seen it reviewed as a non-fiction book.
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Shadowlife
by Martin Grzimek
13 members
1 review
3
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The Black Signs
by Lars Mørch Finborud
9 members
4
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Manuscript Found in Accra
by Paulo Coelho
1,006 members
37 reviews
½ 3.4
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
by James De Mille
366 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
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Found Audio
by N. J. Campbell
91 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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Paraules d'Opòton el Vell
by Avel·lí Artís-Gener
51 members
1 review
3.9
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Weiberroman
by Matthias Politycki
21 members
1 review
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