One convoluted example of a multi-level narrative structure is Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, which has a double framework: an unidentified " I " ( first person singular ) narrator relates a boating trip during which another character, Marlow, tells in the first person the story that comprises the majority of the work.

An example would be a narrator who relates the fate of several protagonists, perhaps as prominent figures recalled in a biographical perspective.

When HCE is first introduced in chapter I. 2, the narrator relates how " in the beginning " he was a " grand old gardener ", thus equating him with Adam in the Garden of Eden.

The second relates to criticism of a narrator, or more, in the chain of narration of a particular hadith.

Lovecraft referred to Azathoth again in " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), where the narrator relates that he " started with loathing when told of the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space which the Necronomicon had mercifully cloaked under the name of Azathoth.

In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar.

An unnamed narrator, while gazing upon his pet cat, begins to reminisce about a law in the town of Ulthar that forbids the killing of cats and relates the story of how this law came to be.

The narrator is considered participant if an actual character in the story, and nonparticipant if only an implied character, or a sort of omniscient or semi-omniscient being who does not take part in the story but only relates it to the audience.

In the " Foreword ", the first person narrator, 15 year-old William Grove, a stand-in for Yates, relates what makes his divorcée mother, decide on Dorset Academy for her son.

The novel is written in a mixture of first and third person, as the narrator relates actions in Africa and

The blind king Dhrtarastra listens as the visionary narrator Sanjaya relates the events of the battle between the Kaurava and the Pandava clans

He relates to the narrator that when he looks through a crack in the wall of the tower he sees a tree made entirely of gold.

The first book features a narrator, possibly Browning himself, who relates the story of how he came across the Yellow Book in the market and then giving a broad outline of the plot.

" Shu ‘ bah relates it from Salmah bin Kuhayl: I heard it from Abū Tufayl that Abū Sarīhah ( رضي الله عنه ) — or Zayd bin Arqam ( رضي الله عنه ) ( Shu ‘ bah has doubts about the narrator ) — relates that the Prophet ( صلى الله عليه وآله وصحبه وسلم ) said: One who has me as his master has ‘ Alī as his master.

The narrator relates how, among other harrowing experiences, " We passed through the Slough of Despond.

The story relates the formative experiences of narrator Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

According to Longman and Dillard, the book includes two ' characters ', Qoheleth / Solomon and the narrator.

One of the men produces a double-edged butcher knife, and as the two men pass it back and forth between them, the narrator tells us that " K. knew then precisely, that it would have been his duty to take the knife ... and thrust it into himself.

For future editions of the book, in 1917 Conrad wrote an " Author's Note " where he discusses each of the three stories, and makes light commentary on the character Marlow-the narrator of the tales within the first two stories.

" David Harley Serlin observes in the second half of Melville's diptych, " The Tartarus of Maids ," the narrator gives voice to the oppressed women he observes: " As other scholars have noted, the " slave " image here has two clear connotations.

In 1984, BBC Radio 4 broadcast two 90-minute plays based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast, adapted by Brian Sibley and starring Sting as Steerpike and Freddie Jones as the Artist ( narrator ).

In two stories (" The Musgrave Ritual " and " The Gloria Scott "), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story.

The later works include Pendennis, a sort of bildungsroman depicting the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a kind of alter ego of Thackeray's who also features as the narrator of two later novels, The Newcomes and The Adventures of Philip.

The different versions of the story are all traceable to one single narrator Muhammad ibn Ka ' b, who was two generations removed from biographer Ibn Ishaq.

Burton further notes that different versions of the story are all tracable to one single narrator Muhammad ibn Ka ' b, two generations removed from Ibn Ishaq, but not contemporary with the event.

As the protagonist also remains anonymous in both of these novels, it is open to debate whether or not ' Harry Palmer ' is the same narrator of these last two novels as in the earlier books.

Whether Nelly is an unbiased narrator and how far her actions, as an apparent bystander, affect the other characters are two points of her character discussed by critics.

The title refers to two bus routes that cross at this intersection ; in the song, the narrator is waiting at a bus stop.

The 1977 film has a number of changes from the prototype, including being entirely in color, moving the starting location from Miami to Chicago, introducing an additional two powers of ten at each extreme, a change in narrator from Judith Bronowski to Philip Morrison, and much improved graphics.

A " sexually ambivalent " young man (' Murugan Mailendra ') in Aldous Huxley's Island ( 1962 ) is likened to Antinous, and his lover Colonel Dipa ( an older man ) to Hadrian, after the narrator discovers the two are having a secret affair.

The narrator ( s ) rely on relics and interviews gathered in the two decades after the suicide to construct the tale.

Set in modern-day Manhattan, the film begins with the narrator ( Lemmy of Motörhead ) introducing two families: the Capulets and the Ques.

In 1984, BBC Radio 4 broadcast two 90-minute plays based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast, adapted by Brian Sibley and starring Sting as Steerpike and Freddie Jones as the Artist ( narrator ).

For its final two issues, the comic became in effect a horror anthology, with the title character being little more than a host / narrator in several short stories.

Several events in the two books appear to contradict each other, and these inconsistencies provide an example of the unreliable narrator, allowing the readers to decide which version of events they believe to be accurate.

He has recorded all seven books in the Harry Potter series, and as a narrator he has won two Grammy Awards, seven Grammy Nominations and a record ten Audie Awards including " Audio Book of the Year 2004 ," " Best Children's Narrator 2001 / 2005 / 2007 / 2008 ," " Best Children's Audio Book 2005 ," two Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association ( one of these was in 2001 for Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban ) and twenty three Audio File Earphone Awards.

Frank's father's deception of his son ( one of Banks ' central themes, which appears again in The Crow Road ), and the propensity of people for deceiving themselves, are accentuated in the final chapters of the book when new facts force the reader to reassess completely the opinions formed about the narrator.

Levin follows the known facts of the case closely, while changing names and using a fictional reporter as a narrator.

This is an epic poem of military exaltation in 37 cantos, where the narrator relays the most significant facts of the Arauco War against the Araucanos ( mapuches ) and which he began to write during the campaign.

The narrator presents the facts of the extraordinary case of Valdemar which have incited public discussion.

Historical facts are intermingled in this life with legendary or uncertain additions, and the whole is woven into a certain unity by the narrator, who may have assumed his significant name from his quality of narrator of " the good news " of Armenia's conversion.

The narrator gives him credit for the basic facts of the story whilst gently lampooning him for his stuffiness.