Two Structures And Two Stories
There's No Shame In Using Something That Works
The Structure Is Familiar
Three Hearts and Three Lions, published in 1961, starts with the same framing structure that Edgar Rice Burroughs used for A Princess of Mars (published as a novel in 1917). Our author begins the story not with Chapter 1, but with a note on how he met the protagonist and knew him for 20 years and how he came to hear this story f…
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