 The song "Poor Edward," however, is presented as a story told by a narrator about Edward Mordrake, and the song "Fish and Bird" is presented as a retold story that the narrator heard from a sailor.In his 1895 historical novel "Pharaoh", Bolesław Prus introduces a number of stories within the story, ranging in length from vignettes to full-blown stories, many of them drawn from ancient Egyptian texts, that further the plot, illuminate characters, and even inspire the fashioning of individual characters.Jan Potocki's "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" (1797–1805) has an interlocking structure with stories-within-stories reaching several levels of depth.