 Also, in "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes, there are many stories within the story that influence the hero's actions (there are others that even the author himself admits are purely digressive).A commonly independently anthologised story is "The Grand Inquisitor" by Dostoevsky from his long psychological novel "The Brothers Karamazov", which is told by one brother to another to explain, in part, his view on religion and morality.It also, in a succinct way, dramatizes many of Dostoevsky's interior conflicts.