Frame stories

The Mahābhārata ( ; , , ) is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Ramayana. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kurukshetra War, a war of succession between two groups of princely cousins, the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas. It contains philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or puruṣārtha (12.161). Among the principal works and stories in the Mahābhārata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, Shakuntala, Pururava and

collection of Middle Eastern folk stories

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

The Ramayana (; ), also known as the Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata. The epic narrates the life of Rama, the seventh avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu, who was a prince of Ayodhya in the kingdom of Kosala. The epic follows his fourteen-year exile to the forest urged by his father King Dasharatha, on the request of Rama's stepmother Kaikeyi; his travels across the forests in the Indian subcontinent wi

American sitcom (2005–2014)

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

14th-century collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer

thumb|The first page of oldest surviving Panchatantra text in Sanskrit thumb|An 18th-century Pancatantra manuscript page in Braj ("The Talkative Turtle")

1899 novella by Joseph Conrad

fictional sailor

fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis

play by Shakespeare

1516 book by Thomas More

1920 film by Robert Wiene

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his kidnapped true love Princess Buttercup from the evil Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

1997 American animated film directed by Andy Knight

thumb|upright=0.85|Nepalese manuscript of the Hitopadesha, c.1800

2004 novel by David Mitchell

1914 film directed by Winsor McCay

story in a nested narration that brackets one or more embedded stories

thumb|250px|Portrait of Marguerite de Navarre|Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, attributed to [[Jean Clouet, .]] 250px|thumb|''The Gentleman's Spur catching in the Sheet. Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Tales of the Heptameron. The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days like The Decameron'', but at Marguerite’s death it was com

1983 film by Ettore Scola

1908 novel by Jack London

1912 novel by Jack London

novella by Ivan Turgenev

1989 novel by Dan Simmons

cycle of stories of Sanskrit, Persian or Hebrew origins

collection of Indian tales

2022 film directed by George Miller

1990 film by John Harrison

1933 novel by James Hilton

1950 novel by Ernest Hemingway

1979 novel by Italo Calvino

novella by Edith Wharton

1990 role-playing video game

unfinished novel by Jan Potocki

1997 novel by Philip Roth

a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

novella by Ivan Turgenev. Written in 1857, first published in 1858 in the first issue of the journal "Sovremennik" (Volume LXVII), 39-84.

2010 film directed by Gary Trousdale

1973 novel by William Goldman

short story by Joseph Conrad

children's book by Mary Wollstonecraft

a collection of tales gathered by François Pétis de la Croix and published between 1710 and 1712

British children's novel, 1952, first in the Borrowers series by Mary Norton

middle Welsh prose tale

French writer (14th century)

comic book mini-series

novella by the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf written in 1842

1948 film by Robert A. Stemmle

1819 short story collection by E. T. A. Hoffmann

1988 film by Ken Russell

1884 short story by Guy de Maupassant

collection of stories by Walter Scott

cycle of Arabic stories

is a short story by Ivan Turgenev, written in 1856 and published in the October issue of the Sovremennik magazine in 1856.

1906 short story by H. G. Wells