📚 Letters

Letters as literature: the published exchanges, and everything the archive happened to keep.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject correspondence in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Letters to a young poet	Rainer Maria Rilke	1656	144
	The works of Robert Burns	Robert Burns	1800	104
	Poems	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844	95
	Briefe an Milena	Franz Kafka	1952	84
	Correspondence	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1865	74
	De profundis	Oscar Wilde	1905	74
	Correspondence	Cicero	1544	71
	The works of George Meredith	George Meredith	1896	70
	Poems	Alexander Pope	1789	67
	Ad Atticum	Cicero	1582	66
	Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire	Voltaire	1784	64
	Correspondence	Ludwig van Beethoven	1867	61
	Auguste Rodin	Rainer Maria Rilke	1907	59
	Letters of Jane Austen	Jane Austen	1884	55
	Vailima letters	Robert Louis Stevenson	1895	52
	Poetry	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1875	50
	Byron's letters and journals	Lord Byron	1830	49
	Briefe	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1846	46
	The letters of John Keats	John Keats	1891	46
	The life and letters of John Hay	William Roscoe Thayer	1915	42
	Lettere dal carcere	Antonio Gramsci	1947	38
	84, Charing Cross Road	Helene Hanff	1970	38
	Brief an den Vater	Franz Kafka	1953	37
	Life and works of Abraham Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	1907	33
	Die Welt von Gestern	Stefan Zweig	1941	30
	Pliny's letters	Alfred John Church	1800	27
	Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his family and friends	Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский	1914	26
	My wicked, wicked ways	Errol Flynn	1960	26
	The letters of Henry James	Henry James	1920	25
	A Moveable Feast	Ernest Hemingway	1964	25

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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