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The '''Point of View''' of a book is the type of narration a writer uses to convey a story to the reader. There are several types:
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*** Universal omniscient, in which the narrator has access to information that nobody in the story could logically know ("Little did they know that the dog was actually Count Basingdorfer in disguise!!"). See [[Lemony Narrator|Lemony Snicket]]'s interjections in [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]].
* '''Multiple-viewpoint:''' This is any story which ''combines'' any or all of the above narrative modes ([[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Otherland]]'').
** This does ''not'' cover things like stylistic blend (having a single authorial aside in the Universal Omniscient style) or occasional rule-breaking (for instance, ''[[Harry Potter]]'' should theoretically never have chapters that are not from Harry's point of view, but in total there are quite a few, including a [[Dream Sequence]] and a partial-chapter slip in [[Harry Potter and
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