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** The first and fourth books are also presented as journals the author had discovered.
* ''[[The Time Machine]]'' by [[HG Wells]] is told through a guest at the Time Traveller's party, who for all but the first two chapters and the final chapter is taking dictation from the Time Traveller.
* ''[[House of Leaves]]'' takes this trope to [[Mind Screw]] levels. The core story is about a {{color|blue|
* ''Encounter With Tiber'', by Buzz Aldrin (yes, the [[NASA|Apollo 11]] Buzz Aldrin) and John Barnes, uses the framing device of a scientist who writes novels. She's selected to be on the first manned voyage to another star. Because of the length of the trip, she has time to write four novels (well, two novels and two translations of existing novels), which together explain [[How We Got Here|how humanity developed the technology for interstellar travel]].
* Several ''[[Redwall]]'' books are framed by an Abbeydweller telling a story to a group of Dibbuns. At the end, a character from the framed story would turn out to be the [[Narrator All Along]].
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