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The Frame Narrator: character portrait from The Two Magics (Henry James)

A character in The Two Magics

The Frame Narrator

The Two Magics by Henry James

The unnamed first-person narrator of the framing story, one of the fireside company who later makes the exact transcript of Douglas's manuscript from which the tale is given.

Also known as: the narrator, the transcriber

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Meet The Frame Narrator

The unnamed first-person narrator is one of a fireside company gathered to hear Douglas present a manuscript. They serve as the story’s transcriber, making an exact record of Douglas’s account and introducing it to the reader.

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