Sentence:  Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques , full of dash and wit and glamor , quoting from the <WSD>books</WSD> I read , imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special , after school class I was enrolled . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)