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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Hardback - 2005

by Booker, Christopher

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Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2005-01-31. hardcover. Like New. 6x2x9. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
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  • Title The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
  • Author Booker, Christopher
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 728
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Continuum Intl Pub Group, London
  • Publication date 2005-01-31
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2603250181
  • ISBN 9780826452092 / 0826452094
  • Weight 2.75 lbs (1.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.42 x 2.1 in (24.08 x 16.31 x 5.33 cm)
  • Size 6x2x9
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature - Stories, plots, etc, Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Booker proposes an entirely new thesis about the nature of storytelling. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Jaws, Booker shows that there are a number of basic themes which continually reappear in the storytelling of mankind, shaping tales of very different kinds and from almost every age and culture.

About the author

As a noted commentator on the political, social and psychological history of our time, Christopher Booker has in recent years, through his weekly Sunday Telegraph column, become the most conspicuous 'global warming sceptic' in the British press. He has based his view on exhaustive research into the scientific evidence for and against the theory of 'man-made climate change'.
His professional interest in this issue grew out of research for his previous book Scared To Death, co-written with Dr Richard North, a study of the 'scare phenomenon' which has been such a prominent feature of Western life in recent decades. Booker's other recent books have included The Seven Basic Plots, a best-selling analysis of why we tell stories which has established itself as a standard text (also published by Continuum). He has been an author and journalist for nearly 50 years, and was the founding editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye.
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