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  2. List of fictional diaries - Wikipedia

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    Examples of diaries being used in one of these ways include Amy Dunne's false diary in Gone Girl and Laura Palmer's secret diary in Twin Peaks. The third category lists hoax diaries, that were presented as being true diaries of real people when first published, but were later discovered to be fiction.

  3. Diary - Wikipedia

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    A diary is a written or audiovisual memorable record, with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwritten but are now also often digital. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, thoughts, and/or feelings, excluding comments on ...

  4. List of contemporary epistolary novels - Wikipedia

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    Diary entries. Dialogic comedic novel about a couple trying to conceive. They each write their thoughts as a form of therapy to help them in this goal. Fielding, Helen: Bridget Jones's Diary: 1996 Diary entries Frayn, Michael: The Trick of It: 1989 Fuentes, Carlos: La silla del águila (The Eagle's Throne) 2002 Letters and diary entries

  5. Epistolary novel - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Aphra Behn's early epistolary novel, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684). There are two theories on the genesis of the epistolary novel: The first claims that the genre originated from novels with inserted letters, in which the portion containing the third-person narrative in between the letters was gradually reduced. [5]

  6. Franz Kafka's Diaries - Wikipedia

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    The diaries offer an image of a profoundly depressed man, isolated from friends and family, involved in a series of failed relationships, and constantly sick. While this is certainly part of Kafka's character, it is typical for a private journal, not meant for publication, to express more of the writer's anxieties and worries.

  7. Commonplace book - Wikipedia

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    For example, in "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger", he researches the newspaper reports of an old murder in a commonplace book. In Alan Moore's graphic novel Providence, the protagonist Robert Black keeps a commonplace book; his entries into this book make up the second halves of the novel's chapters, contrasting with the graphic sections.

  8. Christopher Columbus's journal - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Columbus's journal (Diario) is a diary and logbook written by Christopher Columbus about his first voyage. The journal covers events from 3 August 1492, when Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera , to 15 March 1493 and includes a prologue addressing the sovereigns . [ 1 ]

  9. Martha Ballard - Wikipedia

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    Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – May 7, 1812) was an American midwife, healer, and diarist.Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives.