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<p><b>Fable</b> is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or <a href="Saying" title="Saying">saying</a>.

</p><p>A fable differs from a parable in that the latter <i>excludes</i> animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind. Conversely, an animal tale specifically includes talking animals as characters.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the <a href="King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a> of the <a href="New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>, "<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">μῦθος</span></span>" ("<i><a href="Mythos" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythos">mythos</a></i>") was rendered by the translators as "fable"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the <a href="First_Epistle_to_Timothy" title="First Epistle to Timothy">First Epistle to Timothy</a>, the <a href="Second_Epistle_to_Timothy" title="Second Epistle to Timothy">Second Epistle to Timothy</a>, the <a href="Epistle_to_Titus" title="Epistle to Titus">Epistle to Titus</a> and the <a href="First_Epistle_of_Peter" title="First Epistle of Peter">First Epistle of Peter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Global_history">Global history</h2></div>

<p>The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission. Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aesopic_or_Aesop's_fable">Aesopic or Aesop's fable</h3></div>

<p>The varying corpus denoted <i>Aesopica</i> or <i><a href="Aesop's_Fables" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables</a></i> includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary <a href="Aesop" title="Aesop">Aesop</a>, supposed to have been a slave in <a href="Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greece</a> around 550 BCE. When <a href="Babrius" title="Babrius">Babrius</a> set down fables from the <i>Aesopica</i> in verse for a <a href="Hellenistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic">Hellenistic</a> Prince "Alexander", he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of "myth" that Aesop had introduced to the "sons of the Hellenes" had been an invention of "Syrians" from the time of "<a href="Ninus" title="Ninus">Ninos</a>" (personifying <a href="Nineveh" title="Nineveh">Nineveh</a> to Greeks) and <a href="Belus_(Assyrian)" title="Belus (Assyrian)">Belos</a> ("ruler").<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Epicharmus_of_Kos" title="Epicharmus of Kos">Epicharmus of Kos</a> and Phormis are reported as having been among the first to invent comic fables.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many familiar fables of Aesop include "<a href="The_Crow_and_the_Pitcher" title="The Crow and the Pitcher">The Crow and the Pitcher</a>", "<a href="The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare" title="The Tortoise and the Hare">The Tortoise and the Hare</a>" and "<a href="The_Lion_and_the_Mouse" title="The Lion and the Mouse">The Lion and the Mouse</a>".

</p><p>In the first century AD, <a href="Phaedrus_(fabulist)" title="Phaedrus (fabulist)">Phaedrus</a> (died 50 AD) produced Latin translations in iambic verse of fables then circulating under the name of Aesop. While Phaedrus's Latinisations became classic (transmitted through the Middle Ages, though attributed to a certain <a href="Romulus_(fabulist)" title="Romulus (fabulist)">Romulus</a>, now considered legendary), the writing of fables in Greek did not stop; in the 2nd century AD, <a href="Babrius" title="Babrius">Babrius</a> wrote beast fables in Greek in the manner of Aesop, which would also become influential in the Middle Ages (and sometimes transmitted as Aesop's work).

</p><p>In ancient Greek and Roman education, the fable was the first of the <i><a href="Progymnasmata" title="Progymnasmata">progymnasmata</a></i>—training exercises in prose composition and public speaking, wherein students would be asked to learn fables, expand upon them, invent their own, and finally use them as persuasive examples in longer forensic or deliberative speeches. The need of instructors to teach, and students to learn, a wide range of fables as material for their declamations resulted in their being gathered together in collections, like those of Aesop.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Africa">Africa</h3></div>

<p>African oral culture<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has a rich story-telling tradition. As they have for thousands of years, people of all ages in Africa continue to interact with nature, including plants, animals and earthly structures such as rivers, plains, and mountains. Children and, to some extent, adults are mesmerized by good story-tellers when they become animated in their quest to tell a good fable.

</p><p>The <a href="Anansi" title="Anansi">Anansi</a> oral story originates from the tribes of <a href="Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a>. "All Stories Are Anansi's" was translated by Harold Courlander and Albert Kofi Prempeh and tells the story of a god-like creature Anansi who wishes to own all stories in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The character Anansi is often depicted as a spider and is known for its cunning nature to obtain what it wants, typically seen outwitting other animal characters.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="India">India</h3></div>

<p>India has a rich tradition of fables, many derived from traditional stories and related to local natural elements. Indian fables often teach a particular moral.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some stories the gods have animal aspects, while in others the characters are archetypal talking animals similar to those found in other cultures. Hundreds of fables were composed in <a href="History_of_India" title="History of India">ancient India</a> during the <a href="1st_millennium_BC" title="1st millennium BC">first millennium BCE</a>, often as <a href="Story_within_a_story" title="Story within a story">stories within</a> <a href="Frame_story" title="Frame story">frame stories</a>. Indian fables have a mixed cast of humans and animals. The dialogues are often longer than in fables of Aesop and often comical as the animals try to outwit one another by trickery and deceit. In Indian fables, humanity is not presented as superior to the animals. Prime examples of the fable in India are the Panchatantra and the <a href="Jataka_tales" title="Jataka tales">Jataka tales</a>. These included <a href="Vishnu_Sarma" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishnu Sarma">Vishnu Sarma</a>'s <i><a href="Panchatantra" title="Panchatantra">Panchatantra</a></i>, the <i><a href="Hitopadesha" title="Hitopadesha">Hitopadesha</a></i>, <i><a href="Baital_Pachisi" class="mw-redirect" title="Baital Pachisi">Vikram and The Vampire</a></i>, and <a href="Syntipas" title="Syntipas">Syntipas</a>' <i><a href="Seven_Wise_Masters" title="Seven Wise Masters">Seven Wise Masters</a></i>, which were collections of fables that were later influential throughout the <a href="Old_World" title="Old World">Old World</a>. Ben E. Perry (compiler of the "<a href="Perry_Index" title="Perry Index">Perry Index</a>" of Aesop's fables) has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist <i>Jataka tales</i> and some of the fables in the <i>Panchatantra</i> may have been influenced by similar <a href="Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> and <a href="Near_East" title="Near East">Near Eastern</a> ones.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Earlier <a href="Indian_epic_poetry" title="Indian epic poetry">Indian epics</a> such as <a href="Krishna_Dwaipayana_Vyasa" class="mw-redirect" title="Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa">Vyasa's</a> <i><a href="Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a></i> and <a href="Valmiki" title="Valmiki">Valmiki</a>'s <i><a href="Ramayana" title="Ramayana">Ramayana</a></i> also contained fables within the main story, often as side stories or back-story. The most famous folk stories from the Near East were the <i><a href="One_Thousand_and_One_Nights" title="One Thousand and One Nights">One Thousand and One Nights</a></i>, also known as the <i>Arabian Nights</i>.

</p><p>The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian assortment of fables. The earliest recorded work, ascribed to Vishnu Sharma, dates to around 300 BCE. The tales are likely much older than the compilation, having been passed down orally prior to the book's compilation. The word "Panchatantra" is a blend of the words "pancha" (which means "five" in Sanskrit) and "tantra" (which means "weave"). It implies weaving together multiple threads of narrative and moral lessons together to form a book.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Europe">Europe</h3></div>

<p>Fables had a further long tradition through the <a href="Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> and became part of European high literature. The Roman writer <a href="Avianus" title="Avianus">Avianus</a> (active around 400 AD) wrote Latin fables mostly based on <a href="Babrius" title="Babrius">Babrius</a>, using very little material from Aesop. Fables attributed to Aesop circulated widely in collections bearing the title of <i><a href="Romulus_(fabulist)" title="Romulus (fabulist)">Romulus</a></i> (as though an author named Romulus had translated and rewritten them, though today most scholars regard this Romulus to be a legendary figure). Many of these Latin version were in fact Phaedrus's 1st-century versified Latinisations. Collections titled <i>Romulus</i> inspired a flurry of medieval authors to newly translate (sometimes into local vernaculars), versify and rewrite fables. Among them, <a href="Ad%C3%A9mar_de_Chabannes" title="Adémar de Chabannes">Adémar de Chabannes</a> (11th century), <a href="Alexander_Neckam" title="Alexander Neckam">Alexander Neckam</a> (12th century, <i>Novus Aesopus</i> and shorter <i>Novus Avianus</i>), <a href="Gualterus_Anglicus" title="Gualterus Anglicus">Gualterus Anglicus</a> (12th century) and Marie de France (12th-13th century) wrote fables adapted from models generally understood to be Aesop, Avianus or the so-called "Romulus".

</p><p>In the later Middle Ages, Aesop's fables were newly gathered and edited with a prefatory biography of Aesop. This biography, usually simply titled <i>Life of Aesop</i> (<i>Vita Aesopi</i>), is more invented than factual, and itself a sort of moralistic fable; known in several versions, this <i>Aesop Romance</i>, as scholars term it today, enjoyed nearly as much fame as the fables themselves by the end of the fifteenth century. The most common version of this tale-like biography is attributed to the Byzantine scholar <a href="Maximus_Planudes" title="Maximus Planudes">Maximus Planudes</a> (1260–1310), who also gathered and edited fables for posterity. In the Renaissance, Aesopic fables were hugely popular. They were published in luxurious illuminated manuscripts, such as the so-called "Medici Aesop" made around 1480 in Florence based on the corpus established by Planudes, probably for the <a href="Piero_the_Unfortunate" title="Piero the Unfortunate">son</a> of <a href="Lorenzo_de'_Medici" title="Lorenzo de' Medici">Lorenzo de' Medici</a> (now kept in the New York Public Library). Early on, Aesopic fables were also disseminated in print, usually with Planudes's <i>Life of Aesop</i> as a preface. The German humanist <a href="Heinrich_Steinh%C3%B6wel" title="Heinrich Steinhöwel">Heinrich Steinhöwel</a> published a bilingual (Latin and German) edition of the fables in Ulm in 1476. This publication gave rise to many re-editions of the sole German prose translation (known as the <i>Esopus</i> or <i>Esopus teutsch</i>). It became one the great bestsellers of the last decades of the fifteenth century. Several authors adapted or versified fables from this corpus, such as the German poet and playwright Burkard Waldis, whose versified <i>Esopus</i> of 1548 was influential. Even the artist and polymath <a href="Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a> (1452–1519) composed some fables in his native Florentine dialect.

</p><p>During the 17th century, the French fabulist <a href="Jean_de_La_Fontaine" title="Jean de La Fontaine">Jean de La Fontaine</a> (1621–1695) saw the soul of the fable in the moral—a rule of behavior. Starting with the Aesopian pattern, La Fontaine set out to satirise the court, the church, the rising <a href="Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a>, indeed the entire human scene of his time.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's <a href="John_Gay" title="John Gay">John Gay</a> (1685–1732);<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Poland's <a href="Ignacy_Krasicki" title="Ignacy Krasicki">Ignacy Krasicki</a> (1735–1801);<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti (1739–1812)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi (1754–1827);<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Serbia's <a href="Dositej_Obradovi%C4%87" title="Dositej Obradović">Dositej Obradović</a> (1745–1801);<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spain's <a href="Tom%C3%A1s_de_Iriarte_y_Oropesa" class="mw-redirect" title="Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa">Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa</a> (1750–1791);<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> France's <a href="Jean-Pierre_Claris_de_Florian" title="Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian">Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian</a> (1755–1794);<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Russia's <a href="Ivan_Krylov" title="Ivan Krylov">Ivan Krylov</a> (1769–1844).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contemporary_works">Contemporary works</h2></div>

<p>In contemporary periods, while the fable has been trivialized in children's books, it has also been fully adapted to modern adult literature.

</p><p>During the 1880s, Irish-American journalist and folklorist <a href="Joel_Chandler_Harris" title="Joel Chandler Harris">Joel Chandler Harris</a> wrote African-American fables in the Southern context of slavery under the name of Uncle Remus. His stories (including the animal characters Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear) are modern examples of story-telling that have been praised by scholars like Louis D. Rubin Jr.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harris’ work has also received criticism, however; according to Rubin, Harris seemed to perpetuate segregationist ideology, as well as glamorize the background and role of slaves in his stories.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p><a href="Felix_Salten" title="Felix Salten">Felix Salten</a>'s <i><a href="Bambi%2C_A_Life_in_the_Woods" class="mw-redirect" title="Bambi, A Life in the Woods">Bambi</a></i> (1923) is a <i><a href="Bildungsroman" title="Bildungsroman">Bildungsroman</a></i>—a story of a <a href="Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a>'s coming-of-age—cast in the form of a fable. <a href="James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a> used the ancient fable style in his books <i><a href="Fables_for_Our_Time_and_Famous_Poems_Illustrated" title="Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated">Fables for Our Time</a></i> (1940) and <i>Further Fables for Our Time</i> (1956), and in his stories "<a href="The_Princess_and_the_Tin_Box" title="The Princess and the Tin Box">The Princess and the Tin Box</a>" in <i>The Beast in Me and Other Animals</i> (1948) and "The Last Clock: A Fable for the Time, Such As It Is, of Man" in <i>Lanterns and Lances</i> (1961). <a href="W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont" title="Władysław Reymont">Władysław Reymont</a>'s <i>The Revolt</i> (1922), a metaphor for the <a href="Bolshevik" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolshevik">Bolshevik</a> <a href="Russian_Revolution_of_1917" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Revolution of 1917">Revolution of 1917</a>, described a revolt by animals that take over their farm in order to introduce "equality". <a href="George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>'s <i><a href="Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm">Animal Farm</a></i> (1945) similarly satirized <a href="Stalinist_Communism" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalinist Communism">Stalinist Communism</a> in particular, and <a href="Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a> in general, in the guise of animal fable.

</p><p>In the 21st century, the Neapolitan writer and painter Sabatino Scia is the author of over a hundred fables.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The characters are not only animals, but also things, beings, and elements from nature<b>—</b>all playing the role of revealer of human society. In addition to these writings, Scia also uses painting as a medium for his fables: his collection “Не забувати ніколи. Never forget," for example, is a commentary on <a href="Holodomor" title="Holodomor">Holodomor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Latin America, the brothers Juan and Victor Ataucuri Garcia have also contributed to the resurgence of the fable. But they do so with a novel idea: use the fable as a means of dissemination of traditional literature of that place. In the book "Fábulas Peruanas," published in 2003, they have collected myths, legends, and beliefs of Andean and Amazonian Peru, to write as fables.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>African-American and award-winning author <a href="Octavia_E._Butler" title="Octavia E. Butler">Octavia E. Butler</a>, though having published work since 1971, has made a resurgence in popular media nearly twenty years after her death in 2006. With what The MacArthur Foundation describes as “transcendent fables,” her stories address social issues such as climate change and racial inequality in a way that’s still relevant to many of her readers.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fabulists">Fabulists</h2></div>

<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Aesop" title="Aesop">Aesop</a>, by <a href="Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez" title="Diego Velázquez">Velázquez</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Valmiki" title="Valmiki">Valmiki</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Jean_de_La_Fontaine" title="Jean de La Fontaine">Jean de La Fontaine</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Sulkhan-Saba_Orbeliani" title="Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani">Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Christian_F%C3%BCrchtegott_Gellert" title="Christian Fürchtegott Gellert">Christian Fürchtegott Gellert</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing" title="Gotthold Ephraim Lessing">Gotthold Ephraim Lessing</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Ignacy_Krasicki" title="Ignacy Krasicki">Ignacy Krasicki</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="F%C3%A9lix_Mar%C3%ADa_de_Samaniego" title="Félix María de Samaniego">Félix María de Samaniego</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Tom%C3%A1s_de_Iriarte_y_Oropesa" class="mw-redirect" title="Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa">Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Jean-Pierre_Claris_de_Florian" title="Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian">Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Ivan_Krylov" title="Ivan Krylov">Ivan Krylov</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Dositej_Obradovi%C4%87" title="Dositej Obradović">Dositej Obradović</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Hans_Christian_Andersen" title="Hans Christian Andersen">Hans Christian Andersen</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Joel_Chandler_Harris" title="Joel Chandler Harris">Joel Chandler Harris</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont" title="Władysław Reymont">Władysław Reymont</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Felix_Salten" title="Felix Salten">Felix Salten</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="Don_Marquis" title="Don Marquis">Don Marquis</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a></div>

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<div class="gallerytext"><a href="George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a></div>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classic">Classic</h2></div>

<ul><li><a href="Aesop" title="Aesop">Aesop</a> (mid-6th century <a href="BCE" class="mw-redirect" title="BCE">BCE</a>), author/s of <i><a href="Aesop's_Fables" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Vishnu_Sarma" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishnu Sarma">Vishnu Sarma</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 200 BCE</span>), author of the anthropomorphic political treatise and fable collection, the <i><a href="Panchatantra" title="Panchatantra">Panchatantra</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Bidpai" class="mw-redirect" title="Bidpai">Bidpai</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 200 BCE</span>), author of <a href="Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> (<a href="Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a>) and <a href="Pali" title="Pali">Pali</a> (<a href="Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist">Buddhist</a>) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from <a href="Jataka_tales" title="Jataka tales">Jataka tales</a></li>

<li><a href="Syntipas" title="Syntipas">Syntipas</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 100 BCE</span>), <a href="India" title="India">Indian</a> <a href="Philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher">philosopher</a>, reputed author of a collection of tales known in <a href="Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> as <i><a href="Seven_Wise_Masters" title="Seven Wise Masters">The Story of the Seven Wise Masters</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Gaius Julius Hyginus</a> (Hyginus, <a href="Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> author, native of <a href="Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> or <a href="Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 64 BCE</span> – 17 CE), author of the <i>Fabulae</i></li>

<li><a href="Phaedrus_(fabulist)" title="Phaedrus (fabulist)">Phaedrus</a> (15 BCE – 50 CE), <a href="Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> fabulist, by birth a <a href="Ancient_Macedonians" title="Ancient Macedonians">Macedonian</a></li>

<li><a href="Nizami_Ganjavi" title="Nizami Ganjavi">Nizami Ganjavi</a> (<a href="Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persian</a>, 1141–1209)</li>

<li><a href="Walter_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter of England">Walter of England</a> (12th century), <a href="Anglo-Normans" title="Anglo-Normans">Anglo-Norman</a> poet, published <i>Aesop's Fables</i> in <a href="Distich" class="mw-redirect" title="Distich">distichs</a> <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1175</span></li>

<li><a href="Marie_de_France" title="Marie de France">Marie de France</a> (12th century)</li>

<li><a href="Rumi" title="Rumi">Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī</a> (<a href="Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persian</a>, 1207–1273)</li>

<li><a href="Vardan_Aygektsi" class="mw-redirect" title="Vardan Aygektsi">Vardan Aygektsi</a> (died 1250), Armenian priest and fabulist</li>

<li><a href="Berechiah_ha-Nakdan" title="Berechiah ha-Nakdan">Berechiah ha-Nakdan</a> (Berechiah the Punctuator, or <a href="Linguist" class="mw-redirect" title="Linguist">Grammarian</a>, 13th century), author of <a href="Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a> fables adapted from <a href="Aesop" title="Aesop">Aesop</a>'s Fables</li>

<li><a href="Robert_Henryson" title="Robert Henryson">Robert Henryson</a> (<a href="Scotland" title="Scotland">Scottish</a>, 15th century), author of <i><a href="The_Morall_Fabillis_of_Esope_the_Phrygian" title="The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian">The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a> (<a href="Italy" title="Italy">Italian</a>, 1452–1519)</li>

<li><a href="Biernat_of_Lublin" title="Biernat of Lublin">Biernat of Lublin</a> (<a href="Poland" title="Poland">Polish</a>, 1465? – after 1529)</li>

<li><a href="Jean_de_La_Fontaine" title="Jean de La Fontaine">Jean de La Fontaine</a> (<a href="France" title="France">French</a>, 1621–1695)</li>

<li><a href="Sulkhan-Saba_Orbeliani" title="Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani">Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani</a> (<a href="Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgian</a>, 1658–1725), author of <a href="A_Book_of_Wisdom_and_Lies" class="mw-redirect" title="A Book of Wisdom and Lies"><i>The Book of Wisdom and Lies</i></a></li>

<li><a href="Bernard_de_Mandeville" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard de Mandeville">Bernard de Mandeville</a> (<a href="England" title="England">English</a>, 1670–1733), author of <i><a href="The_Fable_of_the_Bees" title="The Fable of the Bees">The Fable of the Bees</a></i></li>

<li><a href="John_Gay" title="John Gay">John Gay</a> (<a href="England" title="England">English</a>, 1685–1732)</li>

<li><a href="Christian_F%C3%BCrchtegott_Gellert" title="Christian Fürchtegott Gellert">Christian Fürchtegott Gellert</a> (<a href="Germany" title="Germany">German</a>, 1715–1769)</li>

<li><a href="Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing" title="Gotthold Ephraim Lessing">Gotthold Ephraim Lessing</a> (<a href="Germany" title="Germany">German</a>, 1729–1781)</li>

<li><a href="Ignacy_Krasicki" title="Ignacy Krasicki">Ignacy Krasicki</a> (<a href="Poland" title="Poland">Polish</a>, 1735–1801), author of <i><a href="Fables_and_Parables" title="Fables and Parables">Fables and Parables</a></i> (1779) and <i>New Fables</i> (published 1802)</li>

<li><a href="Dositej_Obradovi%C4%87" title="Dositej Obradović">Dositej Obradović</a> (<a href="Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbian</a>, 1739–1811)</li>

<li><a href="F%C3%A9lix_Mar%C3%ADa_de_Samaniego" title="Félix María de Samaniego">Félix María de Samaniego</a> (<a href="Spain" title="Spain">Spanish</a>, 1745–1801), best known for "The Ant and the Cicade"</li>

<li><a href="Tom%C3%A1s_de_Iriarte" title="Tomás de Iriarte">Tomás de Iriarte</a> (<a href="Spain" title="Spain">Spanish</a>, 1750–91)</li>

<li><a href="Jean-Pierre_Claris_de_Florian" title="Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian">Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian</a>, (<a href="France" title="France">French</a>, 1755–94), author of <i>Fables</i> (published 1802)</li>

<li><a href="Ivan_Dmitriev" title="Ivan Dmitriev">Ivan Dmitriev</a> (<a href="Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, 1760–1837)</li>

<li><a href="Ivan_Krylov" title="Ivan Krylov">Ivan Krylov</a> (<a href="Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a>, 1769–1844)</li>

<li><a href="Hans_Christian_Andersen" title="Hans Christian Andersen">Hans Christian Andersen</a> (<a href="Denmark" title="Denmark">Danish</a>, 1805–1875)</li></ul>

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</style><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title" style="padding-bottom:0"><a href="Literature" title="Literature">Literature</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span class="skin-invert notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#ddddff;">

<a href="Oral_literature" title="Oral literature">Oral literature</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist">

<ul><li><a href="Folklore" title="Folklore">Folklore</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">fairy tale</a></li>

<li><a href="Folksong" class="mw-redirect" title="Folksong">folksong</a></li>

<li><a href="Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">heroic epic</a></li>

<li><a href="Legend" title="Legend">legend</a></li>

<li><a href="Proverb" title="Proverb">proverb</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Public_speaking" title="Public speaking">Oration</a></li>

<li><a href="Performance" title="Performance">Performance</a>

<ul><li><a href="Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a></li>

<li><a href="Spoken_word" title="Spoken word">spoken word</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Saying" title="Saying">Saying</a></li></ul></td>

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Major written forms</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup hlist">

<li><a href="Drama" title="Drama">Drama</a>

<ul><li><a href="Closet_drama" title="Closet drama">closet drama</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Poetry" title="Poetry">Poetry</a>

<ul><li><a href="Lyric_poetry" title="Lyric poetry">lyric</a></li>

<li><a href="Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">narrative</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Prose" title="Prose">Prose</a></li>

<li><a href="Literary_nonsense" title="Literary nonsense">Nonsense</a>

<ul><li><a href="Nonsense_verse" title="Nonsense verse">verse</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Ergodic_literature" title="Ergodic literature">Ergodic</a></li>

<li><a href="Electronic_literature" title="Electronic literature">Electronic</a></li></ul>

Long prose fiction</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Anthology" title="Anthology">Anthology</a></li>

<li><a href="Serial_(literature)" title="Serial (literature)">Serial</a></li>

<li><a href="Novel" title="Novel">Novel</a>/<a href="Romance_(prose_fiction)" title="Romance (prose fiction)">romance</a></li></ul></td>

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Short prose fiction</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Novella" title="Novella">Novella</a></li>

<li><a href="Novelette_(literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Novelette (literature)">Novelette</a></li>

<li><a href="Short_story" title="Short story">Short story</a></li>

<li><a href="Drabble" title="Drabble">Drabble</a></li>

<li><a href="Sketch_story" title="Sketch story">Sketch</a></li>

<li><a href="Flash_fiction" title="Flash fiction">Flash fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="Parable" title="Parable">Parable</a></li>

<li><a href="Religious_text" title="Religious text">Religious</a></li>

<li><a href="Wisdom_literature" title="Wisdom literature">Wisdom</a></li></ul></td>

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Prose genres</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup hlist">

<a href="Fiction" title="Fiction">Fiction</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Children's_literature" title="Children's literature">Children's</a></li>

<li><a href="Encyclopedic_novel" title="Encyclopedic novel">Encyclopedic</a></li>

<li><a href="Genre_fiction" title="Genre fiction">Genre</a>

<ul><li><a href="Action_fiction" title="Action fiction">action</a></li>

<li><a href="Adventure_fiction" title="Adventure fiction">adventure</a></li>

<li><a href="Coming-of-age_story" title="Coming-of-age story">coming-of-age</a></li>

<li><a href="Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime</a></li>

<li><a href="Erotic_literature" title="Erotic literature">erotic</a></li>

<li><a href="Fantasy_literature" title="Fantasy literature">fantasy</a></li>

<li><a href="Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">horror</a></li>

<li><a href="Military_fiction" title="Military fiction">military</a></li>

<li><a href="Paranormal_fiction" title="Paranormal fiction">paranormal</a></li>

<li><a href="Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">romance</a></li>

<li><a href="Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">supernatural</a></li>

<li><a href="Western_(genre)" title="Western (genre)">western</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">Historical</a></li>

<li><a href="Realist_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Realist literature">Realist</a></li>

<li><a href="Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative</a></li></ul></td>

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<a href="Non-fiction" title="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Academic_publishing" title="Academic publishing">Academic</a>

<ul><li><a href="History" title="History">history</a></li>

<li><a href="Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Anecdote" title="Anecdote">Anecdote</a></li>

<li><a href="Epistle" title="Epistle">Epistle</a></li>

<li><a href="Essay" title="Essay">Essay</a></li>

<li><a href="Journalism" title="Journalism">Journalism</a></li>

<li><a href="Letter_(message)" title="Letter (message)">Letter</a></li>

<li><a href="Nature_writing" title="Nature writing">Nature</a></li>

<li><a href="Persuasive_writing" title="Persuasive writing">Persuasive</a></li>

<li><a href="Travel_literature" title="Travel literature">Travelogue</a></li></ul></td>

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Poetry genres</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content-with-subgroup hlist">

<a href="Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">Narrative</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Children's_poetry" title="Children's poetry">Children</a></li>

<li><a href="Verse_drama_and_dramatic_verse" title="Verse drama and dramatic verse">Dramatic</a></li>

<li><a href="Verse_novel" title="Verse novel">Verse novel</a></li>

<li><a href="National_poetry" title="National poetry">National</a></li></ul></td>

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<a href="Lyric_poetry" title="Lyric poetry">Lyric</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<ul><li><a href="Ballad" title="Ballad">Ballad</a></li>

<li><a href="Elegy" title="Elegy">Elegy</a></li>

<li><a href="Epigram" title="Epigram">Epigram</a></li>

<li><a href="Ghazal" title="Ghazal">Ghazal</a></li>

<li><a href="Haiku" title="Haiku">Haiku</a></li>

<li><a href="Limerick_(poetry)" title="Limerick (poetry)">Limerick</a></li>

<li><a href="Qasida" title="Qasida">Qasida</a></li>

<li><a href="Sonnet" title="Sonnet">Sonnet</a></li>

<li><a href="Villanelle" title="Villanelle">Villanelle</a></li></ul></td>

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Lists</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">

<li><a href="List_of_poetry_groups_and_movements" title="List of poetry groups and movements">Groups and movements</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_poets" title="List of poets">Poets</a></li></ul></td>

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Dramatic genres</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist">

<ul><li><a href="Comedy" title="Comedy">Comedy</a></li>

<li><a href="Libretto" title="Libretto">Libretto</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="History_(theatrical_genre)" title="History (theatrical genre)">historical</a></li>

<li><a href="Morality_play" title="Morality play">moral</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Satire" title="Satire">Satire</a></li>

<li><a href="Screenplay" title="Screenplay">Script</a></li>

<li><a href="Tragedy" title="Tragedy">Tragedy</a></li>

<li><a href="Tragicomedy" title="Tragicomedy">Tragicomedy</a></li></ul></td>

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<a href="History_of_literature" title="History of literature">History</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist">

<ul><li><a href="Ancient_literature" title="Ancient literature">Ancient</a></li>

<li><a href="Classics" title="Classics">Classical</a></li>

<li><a href="Medieval_literature" title="Medieval literature">Medieval</a></li>

<li><a href="Literary_modernism" title="Literary modernism">Modernist</a></li>

<li><a href="Postmodern_literature" title="Postmodern literature">Postmodern</a></li></ul></td>

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Lists and outlines</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist">

<ul><li><a href="Outline_of_literature" title="Outline of literature">Outline</a></li>

<li><a href="Glossary_of_literary_terms" title="Glossary of literary terms">Glossary</a></li>

<li><a href="Lists_of_books" title="Lists of books">Books</a></li>

<li><a href="Lists_of_writers" title="Lists of writers">Writers</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_literary_movements" title="List of literary movements">Movements</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_literary_cycles" class="mw-redirect" title="List of literary cycles">Cycles</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_literary_awards" title="List of literary awards">Literary awards</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_poetry_awards" title="List of poetry awards">poetry</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Short_story_collection" title="Short story collection">Short story collection</a></li>

<li><a href="Lost_literary_work" title="Lost literary work">Lost literary work</a>

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<ul><li><a href="Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a> (1828–1910)</li>

<li><a href="Rafael_Pombo" title="Rafael Pombo">Rafael Pombo</a> (1833–1912), <a href="Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombian</a> fabulist, poet, writer</li>

<li><a href="Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a> (1842–?1914)</li>

<li><a href="Joel_Chandler_Harris" title="Joel Chandler Harris">Joel Chandler Harris</a> (1848–1908)</li>

<li><a href="Sholem_Aleichem" title="Sholem Aleichem">Sholem Aleichem</a> (1859–1916)</li>

<li><a href="George_Ade" title="George Ade">George Ade</a> (1866–1944), <i>Fables in Slang</i>, etc.</li>

<li><a href="W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont" title="Władysław Reymont">Władysław Reymont</a> (1868–1925)</li>

<li><a href="Felix_Salten" title="Felix Salten">Felix Salten</a> (1869–1945)</li>

<li><a href="Don_Marquis" title="Don Marquis">Don Marquis</a> (1878–1937), author of the fables of <a href="Archy_and_mehitabel" class="mw-redirect" title="Archy and mehitabel">archy and mehitabel</a></li>

<li><a href="Franz_Kafka" title="Franz Kafka">Franz Kafka</a> (1883–1924)</li>

<li><a href="Damon_Runyon" title="Damon Runyon">Damon Runyon</a> (1884–1946)</li>

<li><a href="James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a> (1894–1961), <i><a href="Fables_for_Our_Time_and_Famous_Poems_Illustrated" title="Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated">Fables for Our Time</a></i> and <i>Further Fables for Our Time</i></li>

<li><a href="George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> (1903–1950)</li>

<li><a href="Dr._Seuss" title="Dr. Seuss">Dr. Seuss</a> (1904–1991)</li>

<li><a href="Isaac_Bashevis_Singer" title="Isaac Bashevis Singer">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a> (1904–1991)</li>

<li><a href="Nankichi_Niimi" title="Nankichi Niimi">Nankichi Niimi</a> (1913–1943), Japanese author and poet</li>

<li><a href="Sergey_Mikhalkov" title="Sergey Mikhalkov">Sergey Mikhalkov</a> (1913–2009), Soviet author of children's books</li>

<li><a href="Pierre_Gamarra" title="Pierre Gamarra">Pierre Gamarra</a> (1919–2009)</li>

<li><a href="Richard_Adams" title="Richard Adams">Richard Adams</a> (1920–2016), author of <i><a href="Watership_Down" title="Watership Down">Watership Down</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Jos%C3%A9_Saramago" title="José Saramago">José Saramago</a> (1922–2010), <a href="Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a> writer, author of <i><a href="Ensaio_sobre_a_cegueira" class="mw-redirect" title="Ensaio sobre a cegueira">Ensaio sobre a cegueira</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Italo_Calvino" title="Italo Calvino">Italo Calvino</a> (1923–1985), <i><a href="Cosmicomics" title="Cosmicomics">Cosmicomics</a></i> etc.</li>

<li><a href="Arnold_Lobel" title="Arnold Lobel">Arnold Lobel</a> (1933–87), author of <i>Fables</i>, winner 1981 <a href="Caldecott_Medal" title="Caldecott Medal">Caldecott Medal</a></li>

<li><a href="Ramsay_Wood" title="Ramsay Wood">Ramsay Wood</a> (born 1943), author of <i>Kalila and Dimna: Fables of Friendship and Betrayal</i></li>

<li><a href="Bill_Willingham" title="Bill Willingham">Bill Willingham</a> (born 1956), author of <i><a href="Fables_(Vertigo)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fables (Vertigo)">Fables</a></i> graphic novels</li>

<li><a href="David_Sedaris" title="David Sedaris">David Sedaris</a> (born 1956), author of <i><a href="Squirrel_Seeks_Chipmunk" title="Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk">Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Hayao_Miyazaki" title="Hayao Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a> (born 1941), <a href="Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> filmmaker, director of <i><a href="Spirited_Away" title="Spirited Away">Spirited Away</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Guillermo_del_Toro" title="Guillermo del Toro">Guillermo del Toro</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (born 1964), <a href="Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexican</a> filmmaker, director of <i><a href="Pan's_Labyrinth" title="Pan's Labyrinth">Pan's Labyrinth</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Pendleton_Ward" title="Pendleton Ward">Pendleton Ward</a> (born 1982), American animator, creator of <i><a href="Adventure_Time" title="Adventure Time">Adventure Time</a></i></li></ul>

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<ul><li><i><a href="Aesop's_Fables" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables</a></i> by <a href="Aesop" title="Aesop">Aesop</a></li>

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<li><i><a href="Baital_Pachisi" class="mw-redirect" title="Baital Pachisi">Baital Pachisi</a></i> (also known as <i>Vikram and The Vampire</i>)</li>

<li><i><a href="Hitopadesha" title="Hitopadesha">Hitopadesha</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Kal%C4%ABla_wa-Dimna" title="Kalīla wa-Dimna">Kalīla wa-Dimna</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="A_Book_of_Wisdom_and_Lies" class="mw-redirect" title="A Book of Wisdom and Lies">A Book of Wisdom and Lies</a></i> by <a href="Sulkhan-Saba_Orbeliani" title="Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani">Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Seven_Wise_Masters" title="Seven Wise Masters">Seven Wise Masters</a></i> by <a href="Syntipas" title="Syntipas">Syntipas</a></li>

<li><i><a href="One_Thousand_and_One_Nights" title="One Thousand and One Nights">One Thousand and One Nights</a></i> (also known as <i>Arabian Nights</i>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 800–900</span>)</li>

<li><i><a href="La_Fontaine's_Fables" title="La Fontaine's Fables">Fables</a></i> (1668–1694) by <a href="Jean_de_La_Fontaine" title="Jean de La Fontaine">Jean de La Fontaine</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Fables_and_Parables" title="Fables and Parables">Fables and Parables</a></i> (1779) by <a href="Ignacy_Krasicki" title="Ignacy Krasicki">Ignacy Krasicki</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Fairy_Tales_Told_for_Children._First_Collection." title="Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection.">Fairy Tales</a></i> (1837) by <a href="Hans_Christian_Andersen" title="Hans Christian Andersen">Hans Christian Andersen</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Uncle_Remus%3A_His_Songs_and_His_Sayings" class="mw-redirect" title="Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings">Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings</a></i> (1881) by <a href="Joel_Chandler_Harris" title="Joel Chandler Harris">Joel Chandler Harris</a></li>

<li><i>Fantastic Fables</i> (1899) by <a href="Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Fables_for_Our_Time_and_Famous_Poems_Illustrated" title="Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated">Fables for Our Time</a></i> (1940) by <a href="James_Thurber" title="James Thurber">James Thurber</a></li>

<li><i><a href="99_Fables" title="99 Fables">99 Fables</a></i> (1960) by <a href="William_March" title="William March">William March</a></li>

<li><i>Collected Fables</i> (2000) by <a href="Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, edited by <a href="S._T._Joshi" title="S. T. Joshi">S. T. Joshi</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFVuong2024" class="citation book cs1">Vuong, Quan-Hoang (2024). <i>Wild Wise Weird</i>. AISDL. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>979-8353946595</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example, in <i><a href="First_Epistle_to_Timothy" title="First Epistle to Timothy">First Timothy</a></i>, "neither give heed to fables...", and "refuse profane and old wives' fables..." (1 Tim 1:4 and 4:4, respectively).</span>

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Strong's 3454. μύθος muthos moo’-thos; perhaps from the same as 3453 (through the idea of tuition); a tale, i.e. <u>fiction</u> ("myth"):—fable.<br>"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." (2nd Peter 1:16)</span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Enzyklopädie des Märchens</i> (1977), see "Fabel", "Äsopica" etc.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burkert 1992:121</span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">P. W. Buckham, p. 245</span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAtim_Oton2011" class="citation web cs1">Atim Oton (October 25, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/atim-oton/arits-fables-kids-series_b_1001656.html">"Reaching African Children Through Fables and Animation"</a>. Huffingtonpost.com<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 8,</span> 2012</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-:0-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Norton Anthology World Literature</i> (4th ed.). 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. 2018. pp. <span class="nowrap">902–</span>905. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-393-60285-2</bdi>.</cite><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{cite book}}</code>: CS1 maint: location (link)</span></span>

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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFOhale2020" class="citation web cs1">Ohale, Nagnath (2020-05-25). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200731105845/https://inindianculture.com/indian-fables-stories/">"Indian Fables Stories – In Indian Culture Indian fables with morals"</a>. <i>In Indian Culture</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://inindianculture.com/indian-fables-stories/">the original</a> on 2020-07-31<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2020-07-16</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ben E. Perry, "Introduction", p. xix, in <i>Babrius and Phaedrus</i> (1965)</span>

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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lib.ugent.be/viewer/archive.ugent.be:B04BBED2-F681-11E9-9639-C36B765DA7FD#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-675,0,4065,2270">"Fabel van de smid en de hond"</a>. <i>lib.ugent.be</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2020-09-28</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Translations of his 12 books of fables are available online at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://oaks.nvg.org/fontaine.html">oaks.nvg.org</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">His two collections of 1727 and 1738 are available in one volume on Google Books at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/fablesjohngayil00owengoog">books.google.co.uk</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">His <i>Bajki i przypowieści</i> (Fables and Parables, 1779) are available online at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://literat.ug.edu.pl/ikbajk/index.htm">ug.edu.pl</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/favoleenovelle01pigngoog"><i>His </i>Favole e Novelle<i> (1785) is available on</i></a>. da'torchi di R.di Napoli. 1830<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 8,</span> 2012</span> – via <a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>. <q>pignotti favola.</q></cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFRossi1790" class="citation book cs1">Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo De (1790). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rKoTAAAAQAAJ&q=pignotti+++favola"><i>His </i>Favole<i> (1788) is available on Google Books</i></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 8,</span> 2012</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">9 books of fables are available online in Spanish at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://amediavoz.com/samaniego.htm">amediavoz.com</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Zr0DAAAAQAAJ"><i>His </i>Fabulas Literarias<i> are available on</i></a>. 1816<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 8,</span> 2012</span> – via <a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>. <q>Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa fabulas.</q></cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">His five books of fables are available online in French at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shanaweb.net/florian/la-vie-de-florian.htm">shanaweb.net</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100612144726/http://shanaweb.net/florian/la-vie-de-florian.htm">Archived</a> 2010-06-12 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span>

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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFBuckham1827" class="citation book cs1">Buckham, Philip Wentworth (1827). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_IjAZAAAAYAAJ"><i>Theatre of the Greeks</i></a>. J. Smith. <q>The Theatre of the Greeks.</q></cite></li>

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<li>DLR [David Lee Rubin]. "Fable in Verse", <i>The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics</i>.</li>

<li>Read fables by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/aesop/fables/v-s-vernon-jones">Aesop</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fairytalez.com/author/la-fontaine/">La Fontaine</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFGish_Jen2011" class="citation web cs1">Gish Jen (3 Jan 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132621436/three-modern-fables-to-capture-your-imagination">"Three Modern Fables to Capture Your Imagination"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(Audio with transcript)</span>. <i>NPR : All Things Considered</i>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFTobias_Carroll2017" class="citation web cs1">Tobias Carroll (29 Sep 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tor.com/2017/09/29/the-challenge-of-modern-fables-ben-loorys-erudite-surrealism/">"The Challenge of Modern Fables: Ben Loory's Erudite Surrealism"</a>. <i>Tor.com</i>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFRobert_Spencer_Knotts" class="citation web cs1">Robert Spencer Knotts. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thehumanityproject.com/fables">"Modern Fables"</a>. <i>The Humanity Project</i>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFNguyen2024" class="citation journal cs1">Nguyen, Minh-Hoang (2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions/article/view/11267">"How can satirical fables offer us a vision for sustainability?"</a>. <i>Visions for Sustainability</i>. <b>23</b> (11267): <span class="nowrap">323–</span>328. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.13135%2F2384-8677%2F11267">10.13135/2384-8677/11267</a>.</cite></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Fantasy_Western" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy Western">Fantasy Western</a></li>

<li><a href="Xianxia" title="Xianxia">Xianxia</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="Fantasy_film" title="Fantasy film">Film</a> and <a href="Fantasy_television" title="Fantasy television">television</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_fantasy_anime" title="List of fantasy anime">Anime</a></li>

<li><a href="Lists_of_fantasy_films" title="Lists of fantasy films">Films</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_highest-grossing_fantasy_films" title="List of highest-grossing fantasy films">highest-grossing</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_fantasy_television_programs" title="List of fantasy television programs">Television programs</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="Fantasy_literature" title="Fantasy literature">Literature</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_fantasy_authors" title="List of fantasy authors">Authors</a></li>

<li><a href="Ballantine_Adult_Fantasy_series" title="Ballantine Adult Fantasy series">Ballantine Adult Fantasy series</a></li>

<li><a href="Fantasy_comics" title="Fantasy comics">Comics</a>

<li><i><a href="The_Encyclopedia_of_Fantasy" title="The Encyclopedia of Fantasy">The Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Fantasy_Masterworks" title="Fantasy Masterworks">Fantasy Masterworks</a></li>

<li><a href="Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_fantasy_novels" class="mw-redirect" title="List of fantasy novels">List of novels</a>

<li><a href="List_of_fantasy_story_collections" title="List of fantasy story collections">List of story collections</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_science_fiction_publishers" title="List of science fiction publishers">Publishers</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="Fantasy_fiction_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy fiction magazine">Magazines</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Fantastic_(magazine)" title="Fantastic (magazine)">Fantastic</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Fantastic_Adventures" title="Fantastic Adventures">Fantastic Adventures</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)">Locus</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction" title="The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Science_Fantasy_(magazine)" title="Science Fantasy (magazine)">Science Fantasy</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Unknown_(magazine)" title="Unknown (magazine)">Unknown</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i></li>

<li><a href="F%C3%A9erie" title="Féerie">Féeries</a></li>

<li><a href="Fantasy_podcast" title="Fantasy podcast">Podcasts</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Balrog_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Balrog Award">Balrog</a></li>

<li><a href="British_Fantasy_Award" title="British Fantasy Award">British Fantasy</a></li>

<li><a href="Crawford_Award" title="Crawford Award">Crawford</a></li>

<li><a href="Dragon_Awards" title="Dragon Awards">Dragon</a></li>

<li><a href="Gandalf_Award" title="Gandalf Award">Gandalf</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Gemmell_Awards_for_Fantasy" title="David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy">Gemmell</a></li>

<li><a href="International_Fantasy_Award" title="International Fantasy Award">International Fantasy</a></li>

<li><a href="Japan_Fantasy_Novel_Award" title="Japan Fantasy Novel Award">Japan Fantasy</a></li>

<li><a href="Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus</a></li>

<li><a href="M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s_d'Or" title="Méliès d'Or">Méliès d'Or</a></li>

<li><a href="Mythopoeic_Awards" title="Mythopoeic Awards">Mythopoeic</a></li>

<li><a href="Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula</a></li>

<li><a href="Saturn_Awards" title="Saturn Awards">Saturn</a></li>

<li><a href="T%C3%A4htifantasia_Award" title="Tähtifantasia Award">Tähtifantasia</a></li>

<li><a href="World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Fantasy_fandom" title="Fantasy fandom">Fandom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Fanspeak" title="Fanspeak">Fanspeak</a></li>

<li><a href="Filk_music" title="Filk music">Filk music</a></li>

<li><a href="Harry_Potter_fandom" title="Harry Potter fandom"><i>Harry Potter</i> fandom</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Inklings" class="mw-redirect" title="The Inklings">The Inklings</a></li>

<li><a href="Lovecraft_fandom" title="Lovecraft fandom">Lovecraft fandom</a></li>

<li><a href="Mythopoeic_Society" title="Mythopoeic Society">Mythopoeic Society</a></li>

<li><a href="Tolkien_fandom" title="Tolkien fandom">Tolkien fandom</a></li>

<li><a href="Tolkien's_influence_on_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Tolkien's influence on fantasy">Tolkien's influence</a></li>

<li><a href="Works_inspired_by_J._R._R._Tolkien" class="mw-redirect" title="Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien">Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien</a></li>

<li><a href="World_Fantasy_Convention" title="World Fantasy Convention">World Fantasy Convention</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Fantasy_trope" title="Fantasy trope">Tropes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Legendary_creature" title="Legendary creature">Creatures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Angel" title="Angel">Angels</a></li>

<li><a href="Demon" title="Demon">Demons</a>

<ul><li><a href="Devil" title="Devil">Devils</a></li>

<li><a href="Ghoul" title="Ghoul">Ghouls</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Elemental" title="Elemental">Elementals</a></li>

<li><a href="Fairy" title="Fairy">Faeries</a></li>

<li><a href="Familiar" title="Familiar">Familiars</a></li>

<li><a href="Fire-breathing_monster" title="Fire-breathing monster">Fire-breathing monsters</a>

<ul><li><a href="Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a></li>

<li><a href="Dragon" title="Dragon">Dragons</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Gargoyle_(monster)" title="Gargoyle (monster)">Gargoyles</a></li>

<li><a href="Nymph" title="Nymph">Nymphs</a></li>

<li><a href="Shapeshifting" title="Shapeshifting">Shapeshifters</a>

<ul><li><a href="Werecat" title="Werecat">Werecats</a></li>

<li><a href="Werewolf" title="Werewolf">Werewolves</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Skin-walker" title="Skin-walker">Skin-walkers</a></li>

<li><a href="Supernatural#Spirit" title="Supernatural">Spirits</a></li>

<li><a href="Talking_animals_in_fiction" title="Talking animals in fiction">Talking animals</a></li>

<li><a href="Undead" title="Undead">Undead</a>

<ul><li><a href="Personifications_of_death" title="Personifications of death">Death</a></li>

<li><a href="Ghost" title="Ghost">Ghosts</a></li>

<li><a href="Lich" title="Lich">Liches</a></li>

<li><a href="Mummy_(undead)" title="Mummy (undead)">Mummies</a></li>

<li><a href="Skeleton_(undead)" title="Skeleton (undead)">Skeletons</a></li>

<li><a href="Vampire" title="Vampire">Vampires</a></li>

<li><a href="Zombie" title="Zombie">Zombies</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Unicorn" title="Unicorn">Unicorns</a></li>

<li><a href="Y%C5%8Dkai" title="Yōkai">Yōkai</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_stock_characters" title="List of stock characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Barbarian" title="Barbarian">Barbarian</a></li>

<li><a href="Caveman" title="Caveman">Caveman</a></li>

<li><a href="Damsel_in_distress" title="Damsel in distress">Damsel in distress</a></li>

<li><a href="Donor_(fairy_tale)" title="Donor (fairy tale)">Donor</a></li>

<li><a href="Dragonslayer" title="Dragonslayer">Dragonslayer</a></li>

<li><a href="Fairy_godmother" title="Fairy godmother">Fairy godmother</a></li>

<li><a href="Hero" title="Hero">Heroes</a></li>

<li><a href="Magician_(fantasy)" title="Magician (fantasy)">Magicians</a></li>

<li><a href="Occult_detective_fiction" title="Occult detective fiction">Occult detective</a>

<li><a href="Witchcraft" title="Witchcraft">Witches</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Magic_in_fiction" title="Magic in fiction">Magic system</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Classical_element" title="Classical element">Elements</a></li>

<li><a href="Black_magic" title="Black magic">Dark</a>/<a href="Gray_magic" title="Gray magic">neutral</a>/<a href="White_magic" title="White magic">light</a></li>

<li><a href="Ceremonial_magic" title="Ceremonial magic">Ceremonial</a></li>

<li><a href="Magic_item" title="Magic item">Magic item</a>

<ul><li><a href="Grimoire" title="Grimoire">Grimoire</a></li>

<li><a href="Magic_ring" title="Magic ring">Magic ring</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_magical_weapons" title="List of magical weapons">Magical weapons</a>

<ul><li><a href="Magic_sword" title="Magic sword">Magic sword</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Runes" title="Runes">Runes</a></li>

<li>Schools

<ul><li><a href="Alchemy" title="Alchemy">Alchemy</a></li>

<li><a href="Demonology" title="Demonology">Demonology</a></li>

<li><a href="Divination" title="Divination">Divination</a></li>

<li><a href="Egregore" title="Egregore">Egregore</a></li>

<li><a href="Evocation" title="Evocation">Evocation</a></li>

<li><a href="Incantation" title="Incantation">Incantation</a></li>

<li><a href="Necromancy" title="Necromancy">Necromancy</a></li>

<li><a href="Runic_magic" title="Runic magic">Runecraft</a></li>

<li><a href="Shamanism" title="Shamanism">Shamanism</a></li>

<li><a href="Shapeshifting" title="Shapeshifting">Shapeshifting</a></li>

<li><a href="Thaumaturgy" title="Thaumaturgy">Thaumaturgy</a></li>

<li><a href="Theurgy" title="Theurgy">Theurgy</a></li>

<li><a href="Witchcraft" title="Witchcraft">Witchcraft</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Fantasy_races" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy races">Fantasy races</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Centaur" title="Centaur">Centaurs</a></li>

<li><a href="Dwarf_(folklore)" title="Dwarf (folklore)">Dwarves</a></li>

<li><a href="Elf" title="Elf">Elves</a></li>

<li><a href="Ent" title="Ent">Treants</a></li>

<li><a href="Giant" title="Giant">Giants</a></li>

<li><a href="Gnome" title="Gnome">Gnomes</a></li>

<li><a href="Goblin" title="Goblin">Goblins</a></li>

<li><a href="Gremlin" title="Gremlin">Gremlins</a></li>

<li><a href="Halfling" title="Halfling">Halflings</a></li>

<li><a href="Hobgoblin" title="Hobgoblin">Hobgoblins</a></li>

<li><a href="Kobold" title="Kobold">Kobolds</a></li>

<li><a href="Leprechaun" title="Leprechaun">Leprechauns</a></li>

<li><a href="Merfolk" title="Merfolk">Merfolk</a>

<ul><li><a href="Mermaid" title="Mermaid">Mermaids</a></li>

<li><a href="Merman" title="Merman">Mermen</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Ogre" title="Ogre">Ogres</a></li>

<li><a href="Troll" title="Troll">Trolls</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_mythological_places" title="List of mythological places">Places and events</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Quest" title="Quest">Quests</a></li>

<li><a href="Fantasy_world" title="Fantasy world">Worlds</a>

<li><a href="Subterranean_fiction" title="Subterranean fiction">Hollow Earth</a></li>

<li><a href="Astral_plane" title="Astral plane">Astral plane</a>

<ul><li><a href="Dream_world_(plot_device)" title="Dream world (plot device)">Dreamworld</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Castle" title="Castle">Castle</a></li>

<li><a href="Enchanted_forest" title="Enchanted forest">Enchanted forest</a></li>

<li><a href="Thieves'_guild" title="Thieves' guild">Thieves' guild</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_fictional_schools#Magic_schools" title="List of fictional schools">Magic school</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Allegory" title="Allegory">Allegory</a></li>

<li><a href="Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">Epic poetry</a></li>

<li><a href="Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">Fairy tale</a></li>

<li><a href="Ghost_story" title="Ghost story">Ghost stories</a></li>

<li><a href="Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">Horror fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="LGBT_themes_in_speculative_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT themes in speculative fiction">LGBT themes in speculative fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="Mecha" title="Mecha">Mecha</a></li>

<li><a href="Myth" title="Myth">Mythology</a></li>

<li><a href="Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">Supernatural fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="Superhero_fiction" title="Superhero fiction">Superhero</a></li>

<li><a href="Tokusatsu" title="Tokusatsu">Tokusatsu</a>

<ul><li><a href="Kaiju" title="Kaiju">Kaiju</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Urban_legends_and_myths" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban legends and myths">Urban legend</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Outline"></span></span> <a href="Outline_of_fantasy" title="Outline of fantasy">Outline</a></li>

<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"></span></span> Category</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Narrative321" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Narrative321" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Narrative" title="Narrative">Narrative</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Character_(arts)" title="Character (arts)">Character</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Antagonist" title="Antagonist">Antagonist</a></li>

<li><a href="Archenemy" title="Archenemy">Archenemy</a></li>

<li><a href="Character_arc" title="Character arc">Character arc</a></li>

<li><a href="Character_flaw" title="Character flaw">Character flaw</a></li>

<li><a href="Characterization" title="Characterization">Characterization</a></li>

<li><a href="Confidant" title="Confidant">Confidant</a></li>

<li><a href="Deuteragonist" title="Deuteragonist">Deuteragonist</a></li>

<li><a href="False_protagonist" title="False protagonist">False protagonist</a></li>

<li><a href="Focal_character" title="Focal character">Focal character</a></li>

<li><a href="Gothic_double" title="Gothic double">Gothic double</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Hamartia" title="Hamartia">Hamartia</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Byronic_hero" title="Byronic hero">Byronic</a></li>

<li><a href="Tragic_hero" title="Tragic hero">Tragic</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Narration" title="Narration">Narrator</a></li>

<li><a href="Protagonist" title="Protagonist">Protagonist</a></li>

<li><a href="Stock_character" title="Stock character">Stock character</a></li>

<li><a href="Straight_man" title="Straight man">Straight man</a></li>

<li><a href="Supporting_character" title="Supporting character">Supporting character</a></li>

<li><a href="Title_character" title="Title character">Title character</a></li>

<li><a href="Tritagonist" title="Tritagonist">Tritagonist</a></li>

<li><a href="Villain" title="Villain">Villain</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Plot_(narrative)" title="Plot (narrative)">Plot</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Action_(narrative)" title="Action (narrative)">Action</a></li>

<li><a href="Backstory" title="Backstory">Backstory</a>

<ul><li><a href="Origin_story" title="Origin story">Origin story</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Chekhov's_gun" title="Chekhov's gun">Chekhov's gun</a></li>

<li><a href="Clich%C3%A9" title="Cliché">Cliché</a></li>

<li><a href="Cliffhanger" title="Cliffhanger">Cliffhanger</a></li>

<li><a href="Conflict_(narrative)" title="Conflict (narrative)">Conflict</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Deus_ex_machina" title="Deus ex machina">Deus ex machina</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Dialogue_in_writing" title="Dialogue in writing">Dialogue</a></li>

<li><a href="Dramatic_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Dramatic structure">Dramatic structure</a></li>

<li><a href="Eucatastrophe" title="Eucatastrophe">Eucatastrophe</a></li>

<li><a href="Foreshadowing" title="Foreshadowing">Foreshadowing</a></li>

<li><a href="Flashback_(narrative)" title="Flashback (narrative)">Flashback</a></li>

<li><a href="Flashforward" title="Flashforward">Flashforward</a></li>

<li><a href="Frame_story" title="Frame story">Frame story</a></li>

<li><i><a href="In_medias_res" title="In medias res">In medias res</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Kish%C5%8Dtenketsu" title="Kishōtenketsu">Kishōtenketsu</a></i></li>

<li><a href="MacGuffin" title="MacGuffin">MacGuffin</a></li>

<li><a href="Plot_device" title="Plot device">Plot device</a></li>

<li><a href="Plot_twist" title="Plot twist">Plot twist</a></li>

<li><a href="Poetic_justice" title="Poetic justice">Poetic justice</a></li>

<li><a href="Red_herring" title="Red herring">Red herring</a></li>

<li><a href="Reveal_(narrative)" title="Reveal (narrative)">Reveal</a></li>

<li><a href="Self-insertion" title="Self-insertion">Self-insertion</a></li>

<li><a href="Shaggy_dog_story" title="Shaggy dog story">Shaggy dog story</a></li>

<li><a href="Stereotype" title="Stereotype">Stereotype</a></li>

<li><a href="Story_arc" title="Story arc">Story arc</a></li>

<li><a href="Story_within_a_story" title="Story within a story">Story within a story</a></li>

<li><a href="Subplot" title="Subplot">Subplot</a></li>

<li><a href="Suspense" title="Suspense">Suspense</a></li>

<li><a href="Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">Trope</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Setting_(narrative)" title="Setting (narrative)">Setting</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">Alternate history</a></li>

<li><a href="Backstory" title="Backstory">Backstory</a></li>

<li><a href="Crossover_(fiction)" title="Crossover (fiction)">Crossover</a></li>

<li><a href="Dream_world_(plot_device)" title="Dream world (plot device)">Dreamworld</a></li>

<li><a href="Dystopia" title="Dystopia">Dystopia</a></li>

<li><a href="Fictional_location" title="Fictional location">Fictional location</a>

<li><a href="Fictional_country" title="Fictional country">country</a></li>

<li><a href="Fictional_universe" title="Fictional universe">universe</a>

<ul><li><a href="Parallel_universes_in_fiction" title="Parallel universes in fiction">parallel</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Utopia" title="Utopia">Utopia</a></li>

<li><a href="Worldbuilding" title="Worldbuilding">Worldbuilding</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Irony" title="Irony">Irony</a></li>

<li><a href="Leitmotif" title="Leitmotif">Leitmotif</a></li>

<li><a href="Metaphor" title="Metaphor">Metaphor</a></li>

<li><a href="Moral" title="Moral">Moral</a></li>

<li><a href="Moral_development" title="Moral development">Moral development</a></li>

<li><a href="Motif_(narrative)" title="Motif (narrative)">Motif</a>

<ul><li><a href="Deal_with_the_Devil" title="Deal with the Devil">Deal with the Devil</a></li>

<li><a href="Good_and_evil" title="Good and evil">Conflict between good and evil</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Self-fulfilling_prophecy" title="Self-fulfilling prophecy">Self-fulfilling prophecy</a></li>

<li><a href="Time_travel" title="Time travel">Time travel</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Writing_style" title="Writing style">Style</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Allegory" title="Allegory">Allegory</a></li>

<li><a href="Bathos" title="Bathos">Bathos</a></li>

<li><a href="Comic_relief" title="Comic relief">Comic relief</a></li>

<li><a href="Diction" title="Diction">Diction</a></li>

<li><a href="Figure_of_speech" title="Figure of speech">Figure of speech</a></li>

<li><a href="Imagery" title="Imagery">Imagery</a></li>

<li><a href="Narration" title="Narration">Narration</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_narrative_techniques" title="List of narrative techniques">Narrative techniques</a>

<li><a href="Stylistic_device" title="Stylistic device">Stylistic device</a></li>

<li><a href="Suspension_of_disbelief" title="Suspension of disbelief">Suspension of disbelief</a></li>

<li><a href="Symbolism_(arts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Symbolism (arts)">Symbolism</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Dramatic_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Dramatic structure">Structure</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Dramatic_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Dramatic structure">Act structure</a></li>

<li><a href="Three-act_structure" title="Three-act structure">Three-act structure</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Freytag's_Pyramid" class="mw-redirect" title="Freytag's Pyramid">Freytag's Pyramid</a>

<ul><li><a href="Exposition_(narrative)" title="Exposition (narrative)">Exposition</a>/<a href="Protasis" title="Protasis">Protasis</a></li>

<li><a href="Epitasis" title="Epitasis">Rising action/Epitasis</a></li>

<li><a href="Climax_(narrative)" title="Climax (narrative)">Climax</a>/<a href="Peripeteia" title="Peripeteia">Peripeteia</a></li>

<li><a href="Catastasis" title="Catastasis">Falling action/Catastasis</a></li>

<li><a href="Catastrophe_(drama)" title="Catastrophe (drama)">Denouement/Catastrophe</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Narrative_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Narrative structure">Linear narrative</a></li>

<li><a href="Nonlinear_narrative" title="Nonlinear narrative">Nonlinear narrative</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_nonlinear_narrative_films" title="List of nonlinear narrative films">films</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_nonlinear_narrative_television_series" title="List of nonlinear narrative television series">television series</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Premise_(narrative)" title="Premise (narrative)">Premise</a></li>

<li><a href="Types_of_fiction_with_multiple_endings" title="Types of fiction with multiple endings">Types of fiction with multiple endings</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_narrative_forms" title="List of narrative forms">Form</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Drama" title="Drama">Drama</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Fabliau" title="Fabliau">Fabliau</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Flash_fiction" title="Flash fiction">Flash fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="Folklore" title="Folklore">Folklore</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">Fairy tale</a></li>

<li><a href="Legend" title="Legend">Legend</a></li>

<li><a href="Gamebook" title="Gamebook">Gamebook</a></li>

<li><a href="Narrative_art" title="Narrative art">Narrative art</a></li>

<li><a href="Narrative_poetry" title="Narrative poetry">Narrative poetry</a>

<ul><li><a href="Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">Epic poetry</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Novel" title="Novel">Novel</a></li>

<li><a href="Novella" title="Novella">Novella</a></li>

<li><a href="Parable" title="Parable">Parable</a></li>

<li><a href="Short_story" title="Short story">Short story</a></li>

<li><a href="Vignette_(literature)" title="Vignette (literature)">Vignette</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Literary_genre" title="Literary genre">Genre</a><br>(<a href="List_of_writing_genres" title="List of writing genres">List</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Fiction" title="Fiction">Fiction</a>

<ul><li><a href="Action_fiction" title="Action fiction">Action fiction</a></li>

<li><a href="Adventure_fiction" title="Adventure fiction">Adventure</a></li>

<li><a href="Comic_novel" title="Comic novel">Comic</a></li>

<li><a href="Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">Crime</a></li>

<li><a href="Epistolary_novel" title="Epistolary novel">Epistolary</a></li>

<li><a href="Ergodic_literature" title="Ergodic literature">Ergodic</a></li>

<li><a href="Erotic_literature" title="Erotic literature">Erotic</a></li>

<li><a href="Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">Historical</a>

<ul><li><a href="Western_fiction" title="Western fiction">Western</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery</a></li>

<li><a href="Nautical_fiction" title="Nautical fiction">Nautical</a></li>

<li><a href="Paranoid_fiction" title="Paranoid fiction">Paranoid</a></li>

<li><a href="Philosophical_fiction" title="Philosophical fiction">Philosophical</a></li>

<li><a href="Picaresque_novel" title="Picaresque novel">Picaresque</a></li>

<li><a href="Political_fiction" title="Political fiction">Political</a></li>

<li><a href="Pop_culture_fiction" title="Pop culture fiction">Pop culture</a></li>

<li><a href="Psychological_fiction" title="Psychological fiction">Psychological</a></li>

<li><a href="Inspirational_fiction" title="Inspirational fiction">Religious</a></li>

<li><a href="Rogue_literature" title="Rogue literature">Rogue</a></li>

<li><a href="Romance_novel" title="Romance novel">Romance</a>

<ul><li><a href="Chivalric_romance" title="Chivalric romance">Chivalric</a></li>

<li><a href="Romance_(prose_fiction)" title="Romance (prose fiction)">Prose</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Satire" title="Satire">Satire</a></li>

<li><a href="Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction">Speculative fiction</a>

<ul><li><a href="Fantasy" title="Fantasy">Fantasy</a></li>

<li><a href="Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic</a>

<ul><li><a href="Southern_Gothic" title="Southern Gothic">Southern</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">Horror</a></li>

<li><a href="Magic_realism" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic realism">Magic realism</a></li>

<li><a href="Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science</a>

<li><a href="Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction" title="Utopian and dystopian fiction">Utopian and dystopian</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_underwater_science_fiction_works" title="List of underwater science fiction works">Underwater</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Superhero_fiction" title="Superhero fiction">Superhero</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Theological_fiction" title="Theological fiction">Theological</a></li>

<li><a href="Thriller_(genre)" title="Thriller (genre)">Thriller</a></li>

<li><a href="Urban_fiction" title="Urban fiction">Urban</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Nonfiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</a>

<ul><li><a href="Autobiography" title="Autobiography">Autobiography</a></li>

<li><a href="Biography" title="Biography">Biography</a></li>

<li><a href="Non-fiction_novel" title="Non-fiction novel">Novel</a></li>

<li><a href="Creative_nonfiction" title="Creative nonfiction">Creative</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Narration" title="Narration">Narration</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Diegesis" title="Diegesis">Diegesis</a></li>

<li><a href="First-person_narrative" title="First-person narrative">First-person</a></li>

<li><a href="Second-person_narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Second-person narrative">Second-person</a></li>

<li><a href="Third-person_narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Third-person narrative">Third-person</a>

<ul><li><a href="Third-person_omniscient_narrative" class="mw-redirect" title="Third-person omniscient narrative">Third-person omniscient narrative</a></li>

<li><a href="Narration#Subjective_or_objective" title="Narration">Subjectivity</a></li>

<li><a href="Unreliable_narrator" title="Unreliable narrator">Unreliable narrator</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Multiperspectivity" title="Multiperspectivity">Multiple narrators</a></li>

<li><a href="Stream_of_consciousness" title="Stream of consciousness">Stream of consciousness</a></li>

<li><a href="Stream_of_unconsciousness" title="Stream of unconsciousness">Stream of unconsciousness</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Grammatical_tense" title="Grammatical tense">Tense</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Present_tense" title="Present tense">Present</a></li>

<li><a href="Future_tense" title="Future tense">Future</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Dominant_narrative" title="Dominant narrative">Dominant narrative</a></li>

<li><a href="Fiction_writing" title="Fiction writing">Fiction writing</a>

<ul><li><a href="Continuity_(fiction)" title="Continuity (fiction)">Continuity</a>

<ul><li><a href="Canon_(fiction)" title="Canon (fiction)">Canon</a></li>

<li><a href="Reboot_(fiction)" title="Reboot (fiction)">Reboot</a></li>

<li><a href="Retroactive_continuity" title="Retroactive continuity">Retcon</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Parallel_novel" title="Parallel novel">Parallel novel</a></li>

<li><a href="Prequel" title="Prequel">Prequel</a> / <a href="Sequel" title="Sequel">Sequel</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Genre" title="Genre">Genre</a>

<li><a href="Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">Literary science</a></li>

<li><a href="Literary_theory" title="Literary theory">Literary theory</a></li>

<li><a href="Narrative_identity" title="Narrative identity">Narrative identity</a></li>

<li><a href="Narrative_paradigm" title="Narrative paradigm">Narrative paradigm</a></li>

<li><a href="Narrative_therapy" title="Narrative therapy">Narrative therapy</a></li>

<li><a href="Narratology" title="Narratology">Narratology</a>

<ul><li><a href="Metafiction" title="Metafiction">Metafiction</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Political_narrative" title="Political narrative">Political narrative</a></li>

<li><a href="Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">Rhetoric</a>

<ul><li><a href="Glossary_of_rhetorical_terms" title="Glossary of rhetorical terms">Glossary</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Screenwriting" title="Screenwriting">Screenwriting</a></li>

<li>Series of works</li>

<li><a href="Storytelling" title="Storytelling">Storytelling</a></li>

<li><a href="Tellability" title="Tellability">Tellability</a></li>

<li><a href="Verisimilitude_(fiction)" title="Verisimilitude (fiction)">Verisimilitude</a></li></ul>

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