Story within a story

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a narrative device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of an additional second story. Multiple layers of stories within stories are sometimes called nested stories.

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