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The novel Frankenstein does indeed start out as an epistolary novel however this form is quickly abandoned and it becomes (instead) a narrative by the Doctor and occasionally a second-hand narrative by the monster. I believe that Mary Shelley began with the intention of an epistolary novel, abandoned the form when things started going very well in the other way, and didn't bother to go back and change her beginning.

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