The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
Booker, Christopher
ISBN 10: 1472976185 ISBN 13: 9781472976185
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Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years.
About the Author: Christopher Booker was a founding editor of Private Eye, to which he regularly contributed, and also wrote a longstanding column for the Sunday Telegraph. His bestselling books include The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, The Real Global Warming Disaster, The Great Deception, The Mad Officials, Scared to Death and The Neophiliacs. Booker died in July 2019.
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Title: The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum (edition )
Publication Date: 2019
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