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* [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' has the framing device of a group of pilgrims telling each other stories to pass the time on their journey.
* It's possible that Chaucer was familiar with [[Giovanni Boccaccio|Boccaccio]]'s ''[[The Decameron|Decameron]]'', featuring a group of young men and women retreating to a country estate to avoid the plague and passing the time by telling stories as a framing device.
* ''Tales of a Wayside Inn'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is about a set of literary companions [[You All Met At An Inn|meeting]] at an Inn and telling [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|tales]]. As it happened the characters were the writer and several of his friends while the real inn is still open for business in New England.
* [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''[[The High Crusade]]'' uses this ''twice'': the action is framed as being the chronicle written by a monk, which in turn is framed as a translation by a group encountering the subjects of the story.
*[[Technic History]] by the same author is a history of the rise and fall of several civilizations within which short stories take place.
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