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The Seven Basic Plots

: Why We Tell Stories

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and

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Christopher Booker (3)

“Human imagination seems to be so constituted that it naturally works round certain ‘elemental’ shapes and images.”

— Christopher Booker, amazon.com

Tagged: DNA of Things, Core Concepts, Elemental Particles, Elementary Forces

“We are in fact uncovering nothing less than a kind of hidden, universal language: a nucleus of situations and figures which are the very stuff from which stories are made.”

— Christopher Booker, amazon.com

Tagged: Poking Holes In Language, Universal, Pattern Finding in Narratives, Core, Core Profiles

“To say that stories either have happy or unhappy endings may seem such a commonplace that one almost hesitates to utter it. But it has to be said, simply because it is the most important single thing to be observed about stories.”

— Christopher Booker, amazon.com

Tagged: Right Under Your Nose, Storytelling, Story Archetypes, Binary Storytelling