Near the beginning of the tale, the narrator says he would be " mad indeed " if he should expect a reader to believe the story, implying that he has already been accused of madness.

Lauretta is the narrator of this very old tale.

Elissa is the narrator of this tale which was either taken from a fabliau by Jean de Condé written between 1313 and 1337, or from a story about Saint Jerome in The Golden Legend, written about 1260.

Niefile is the narrator of this tale.

Panfilo is the narrator of this tale.

In Heine's tale, the narrator watches a performance of a fictitious stage play on the theme of the sea captain cursed to sail forever for blasphemy.

Genji follows the traditional format of monogatari — telling a tale — particularly evident in its use of a narrator, but Keene claims Murasaki developed the genre far beyond its bounds, and by doing so created a form that is utterly modern.

Reminiscent of series such as The Twilight Zone, Sir-Mix-a-Lot functioned as an omniscient narrator who introduced each episode, which would feature a new tale set in the seamy underbelly of Las Vegas.

David, the narrator of the frame tale, is a middle-aged Manhattan lawyer.

As proof of his tale, Carnehan shows the narrator Dravot's head, still wearing the golden crown.

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

As in Treasure Island, the narrator of King Solomon's Mines tells his tale in the first person in an easy conversational style.

In the poem, Wolfram's narrator expresses disdain for Chrétien's ( unfinished ) version of the tale, and states that his source was a poet from Provence called Kyot.

* Dit de l ' Alérion aka Dit des quatre oiseaux (" Story of the 4 Birds ") ( before 1349 ) – A symbolic tale of love: the narrator raises four different birds, but each one flees him ; one day the second ( and preferred ) bird comes back to him.

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.

* Iris Chase: The narrator and protagonist of the tale and also that of the novel within the novel.

The " Leopard Man ", a saddened leopard trainer who bore visible scars on his arms and whose personality diametrically opposed his daring profession, tells a tale of a " lion-tamer who was hated by another man " to the narrator.

After a brief tale of Sir Launcelot of Camelot and his role in slaying two giants from the third-person narrative, the man named Hank Morgan enters and, after being given whiskey by the narrator, he is persuaded to reveal more of his story.

In the earlier stories, the unnamed first-person narrator returns very briefly to close out the tale back at the Angler's Rest -- in later stories, the story ends when Mr. Mulliner has concluded it.

In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the " blasted heath " in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts.

The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help.

In 1977, Fred Astaire returned as mailman narrator Kruger in The Easter Bunny Is Comin ' to Town, telling the tale of the Easter Bunny's origins.

A specialized form of the frame is a dream vision, where the narrator claims to have gone to sleep, dreamed the events of the story, and then awoken to tell the tale.

In referencing the tale of a woman about to be hanged for existing outside of marriage and rejecting motherhood, the narrator identifies women writers such as herself as outsiders who exist in a potentially dangerous space.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

This new vision of man that the narrator acquires is also accompanied by a re-vision of his previous view.

and the narrator recalls the words of his father, Vincent Berger: `` It is not by any amount of scratching at the individual that one finally comes down to mankind ''.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

Although Camus's approach in the book is severe, his narrator emphasizes the ideas that we ultimately have no control, and irrationality of life is inevitable.

Rieux reveals that he is the narrator of the chronicle and that he tried to present an objective view of the events.

* Dr. Bernard Rieux: Dr. Bernard Rieux is the narrator of the novel, although this is only revealed at the end.

This aspect of Poirot is less evident in the later novels, partly because there is rarely a narrator so there is no one for Poirot to mislead.

Again, Poirot is not reliable as a narrator of his personal history and there is no evidence that Christie sketched it out in any depth.

Paul Bäumer is the main character and narrator.

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.

* He is the narrator of the 2006 documentary Quilombo Country, directed by Leonard Abrams.

Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:

") The author later appears in Billy Pilgrim's World War II as another sick prisoner, which the narrator notes by saying: That was I.

In Billy Joel's " You May Be Right ( I May Be Crazy )", the in-song narrator describes his dangerous past with the phrase " I was stranded in the Combat Zone ".

He has taken a particular interest in exposing young people to classical music ; many of his works are written for young audiences, including Three Fun Fables, a setting for narrator and orchestra of familiar Aesop tales ; Billy and the Carnival, a narrated guide to the instruments of the orchestra ; Blast Off !, a travelog of a trip to outer space ( the score to which was flown by NASA on the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle ); and familiar stories such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, and The Tortoise and the Hare., and Stone Soup: An Operatic Fable in One Delicious Act which has enjoyed well over 1000 performances.

The story begins with the narrator explaining that young Billy Thompson was determined to be a football player, despite being born half man / half fish.

Set in 1953, the film explores the budding relationship between Billy Joe McAllister ( Benson ) and Bobbie Lee Hartley ( O ' Connor ) ( who corresponds with the unnamed narrator of the original song ), despite resistance from Hartley's family, who contend she is too young to date.