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---Kasia Boddy, Daily Telegraph (UK), November 20, 2004” –, “"Christopher Booker has written a book of considerable value. --Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday (UK) Dec. 26, 2005” – 

Sir Antony Jay, co-author of Yes, Minister” –  Blurb from reviewer, “"...This is a work of voracious reading and unstoppable enthusiasm" --John Mullan, Evening Standard (UK) November 22, 2004” – 

Blurb from reviewer, “"I salute his hatred of soap operas, and the many sloppy films and TV shows and novels which have lost touch with the fascinating and emotionally satisfying business of story."

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Underlying the stories he examines are Seven Basic Plots: rags to riches; the quest; voyage and return; the hero as monster; rebirth and so on. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation. Blurb from reviewer, “"...this is the book you should put at the top of your list. With Booker's exploration, there is literally no story in the world which cannot be seen in a new light: we have come to the heart of what stories are about and why we tell them. Blurb from reviewer, “"....Scholarly but very readable....[Booker's] book is a fascinating one...."--Leicester Mercury (UK) Nov. 16, 2004” –  { Good Book Guide” –, “Like the previous reviewer, I didn't find the later parts of the book to be as convincing as the first, particularly the explanation of each of the seven plots.

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As an English major in my former life (i.e.

'name': 'Groupthink' It is so well planned with an excellent beginning and the contrasts and comparisons throughout are highly entertaining as well as informative and most original - and always extremely readable.'

He is an especially adept guide through the twists and characters of Wagner's operas. From The Epic of Gilgemesh to Jaws and Schindler's List, Christopher Booker examines in detail the stories that underlie literature and the plots that are basic to story telling through the ages. Christopher Booker was a founding editor of Private Eye, to which he regularly contributed, and also wrote a longstanding column for the Sunday Telegraph. Booker now interprets the mind of God, and analyses not just the novel - which will never to me be quite the same again - but puts the narrative of contemporary human affairs into a new perspective. --New Statesman” –, “"I shall be rattling this secret weapon, this golden key to all mythologies, in every door I come across for months to come."

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Seven Basic Plots is unquestionably his most important book to date. }); 1385 Broadway, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10018 USA, This website uses cookies to improve user experience.

It goes to the heart of man's cultural evolution through the stories we have told since storytelling began. Sade - Ulysses - Last Exit to Brooklyn - A Clockwork OrangeChapter 28 - Rebelllion Against the One Job - 1984Chapter 29 - The Mystery - Murders in the Rue Morgue - Sherlock Holmes - Citizen KaneChapter 30 - The Riddle of the Sphinx - Sophocles - Hamlet, “'Unusual... the author shows that stories can be seen to chart the psychological development of mankind.' Blurb from reviewer, “"a wonderful undertaking...I am happy that people are once again looking at stories in this way." It also made me want to read, or re-read a number of the books he refers to.

His prose is a model of clarity, and his lively enthusiasm for fiction of every description is infectious. --Adele Geras, Times Educational Supplement (UK), November 2004” –  --Rev. His artfully entertaining summaries jogged many warm memories of half-forgotten novels and films...The Seven Basic Plots is nevertheless one of most diverting works on storytelling I've ever encountered. Here, Christopher Booker moves on from some of the themes he outlined in his hugely bestselling book The Neophiliacs.

This remarkable and … This is a truly important book, an acolade often bestowed and rarely desrved in our modern age" -Dame Beryl Bainbridge, author of Every Man for Himself and winner of the Whitbred Novel Award” – 

“"It...needs considerable time to read and digest a book of such a size...Booker gives good arguements...[and] there's certainly enough here to digest and think about.

Blurb from reviewer, “'An enormous piece of work, not really one book at all but at least three ... nothing less than the story of all stories. It is as essential for anyone studying literature at degree level (not least because Booker is such an exemplary writer) as it is for anyone with the slightest interest in the world around them..." --Duncan Wu, Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, Times Higher Education Supplement (UK)” –  { --John Bayley, The Spectator (UK) November 13, 2004” – 

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I doubt whether any single volume has ever drawn on a wider range of stories, plays, novels and films than his...." -- Sunday Telegraph (Review)” –, “"Continuum may be deeply conservative in its view of modern storytelling as a reflection of society's moral decline, but this enormous tome is worth the work."

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Blurb from reviewer, “Booker compiles a Jungian taxonomy of stories, distilling the entire history of the fictive arts into a handful of flexible but unbreakable archetypes...and then extracts from those seven imaginative drops a single battle royal between Dark and Light." Katherine Sale, Financial Times (UK), October 22, 2004” – 

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'name': 'Groupthink' Came in very handy on a recent return trip to New Zealand (50+ hours potential reading time ) as aircraft reading.” –. "” –  Geoff Willmetts, SFCrowsnest.

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Wilson, Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov. 8, 2004” –  Blurb from reviewer, “"No critic [other than Booker] could have a more penetrating sense of why the great and the good in literature have earned their classic status, or a better nose for detecting a comparable excellence in new or unexpected places....Booker has been at work on this deep-flowing masterpiece of critical assessment for 34 years.
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Blurb from reviewer, “"The Seven Basic Plots takes its reader on an epic journey. ga('ec:setAction', 'add'); For in some ingenious way, by setting up a conversation with the human psyche, a good book reads us, just as much as we read it.

---Kasia Boddy, Daily Telegraph (UK), November 20, 2004” –, “"Christopher Booker has written a book of considerable value. --Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday (UK) Dec. 26, 2005” – 

Sir Antony Jay, co-author of Yes, Minister” –  Blurb from reviewer, “"...This is a work of voracious reading and unstoppable enthusiasm" --John Mullan, Evening Standard (UK) November 22, 2004” – 

Blurb from reviewer, “"I salute his hatred of soap operas, and the many sloppy films and TV shows and novels which have lost touch with the fascinating and emotionally satisfying business of story."

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Underlying the stories he examines are Seven Basic Plots: rags to riches; the quest; voyage and return; the hero as monster; rebirth and so on. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation. Blurb from reviewer, “"...this is the book you should put at the top of your list. With Booker's exploration, there is literally no story in the world which cannot be seen in a new light: we have come to the heart of what stories are about and why we tell them. Blurb from reviewer, “"....Scholarly but very readable....[Booker's] book is a fascinating one...."--Leicester Mercury (UK) Nov. 16, 2004” –  { Good Book Guide” –, “Like the previous reviewer, I didn't find the later parts of the book to be as convincing as the first, particularly the explanation of each of the seven plots.

}); }); $('#addtocartbutton-359162').click(function() { --Noonie Minogue, The Tablet (UK) Jan. 8, 2005” – 

Blurb from reviewer, “'This is literally an incomparable book, because there is nothing to compare it with.

'name': 'Scared to Death'

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As an English major in my former life (i.e.

'name': 'Groupthink' It is so well planned with an excellent beginning and the contrasts and comparisons throughout are highly entertaining as well as informative and most original - and always extremely readable.'

He is an especially adept guide through the twists and characters of Wagner's operas. From The Epic of Gilgemesh to Jaws and Schindler's List, Christopher Booker examines in detail the stories that underlie literature and the plots that are basic to story telling through the ages. Christopher Booker was a founding editor of Private Eye, to which he regularly contributed, and also wrote a longstanding column for the Sunday Telegraph. Booker now interprets the mind of God, and analyses not just the novel - which will never to me be quite the same again - but puts the narrative of contemporary human affairs into a new perspective. --New Statesman” –, “"I shall be rattling this secret weapon, this golden key to all mythologies, in every door I come across for months to come."

'id': '9781472985224', --Susan Elderkind, novelist” –  His readers are the ultimate beneficiaries, and should be grateful to be so." ga('ec:setAction', 'add');

Seven Basic Plots is unquestionably his most important book to date. }); 1385 Broadway, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10018 USA, This website uses cookies to improve user experience.

It goes to the heart of man's cultural evolution through the stories we have told since storytelling began. Sade - Ulysses - Last Exit to Brooklyn - A Clockwork OrangeChapter 28 - Rebelllion Against the One Job - 1984Chapter 29 - The Mystery - Murders in the Rue Morgue - Sherlock Holmes - Citizen KaneChapter 30 - The Riddle of the Sphinx - Sophocles - Hamlet, “'Unusual... the author shows that stories can be seen to chart the psychological development of mankind.' Blurb from reviewer, “"a wonderful undertaking...I am happy that people are once again looking at stories in this way." It also made me want to read, or re-read a number of the books he refers to.

His prose is a model of clarity, and his lively enthusiasm for fiction of every description is infectious. --Adele Geras, Times Educational Supplement (UK), November 2004” –  --Rev. His artfully entertaining summaries jogged many warm memories of half-forgotten novels and films...The Seven Basic Plots is nevertheless one of most diverting works on storytelling I've ever encountered. Here, Christopher Booker moves on from some of the themes he outlined in his hugely bestselling book The Neophiliacs.

This remarkable and … This is a truly important book, an acolade often bestowed and rarely desrved in our modern age" -Dame Beryl Bainbridge, author of Every Man for Himself and winner of the Whitbred Novel Award” – 

“"It...needs considerable time to read and digest a book of such a size...Booker gives good arguements...[and] there's certainly enough here to digest and think about.

Blurb from reviewer, “'An enormous piece of work, not really one book at all but at least three ... nothing less than the story of all stories. It is as essential for anyone studying literature at degree level (not least because Booker is such an exemplary writer) as it is for anyone with the slightest interest in the world around them..." --Duncan Wu, Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, Times Higher Education Supplement (UK)” –  { --John Bayley, The Spectator (UK) November 13, 2004” – 

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I doubt whether any single volume has ever drawn on a wider range of stories, plays, novels and films than his...." -- Sunday Telegraph (Review)” –, “"Continuum may be deeply conservative in its view of modern storytelling as a reflection of society's moral decline, but this enormous tome is worth the work."

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Blurb from reviewer, “Booker compiles a Jungian taxonomy of stories, distilling the entire history of the fictive arts into a handful of flexible but unbreakable archetypes...and then extracts from those seven imaginative drops a single battle royal between Dark and Light." Katherine Sale, Financial Times (UK), October 22, 2004” – 

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'name': 'Groupthink' Came in very handy on a recent return trip to New Zealand (50+ hours potential reading time ) as aircraft reading.” –. "” –  Geoff Willmetts, SFCrowsnest.

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Wilson, Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov. 8, 2004” –  Blurb from reviewer, “"No critic [other than Booker] could have a more penetrating sense of why the great and the good in literature have earned their classic status, or a better nose for detecting a comparable excellence in new or unexpected places....Booker has been at work on this deep-flowing masterpiece of critical assessment for 34 years.
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--Cathal Dallat, poet” – 

}); $('#addtocartbutton-460234').click(function() { Seven Basic Plots is unquestionably his most important book to date.

Blurb from reviewer, “"The Seven Basic Plots takes its reader on an epic journey. ga('ec:setAction', 'add'); For in some ingenious way, by setting up a conversation with the human psyche, a good book reads us, just as much as we read it.

---Kasia Boddy, Daily Telegraph (UK), November 20, 2004” –, “"Christopher Booker has written a book of considerable value. --Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday (UK) Dec. 26, 2005” – 

Sir Antony Jay, co-author of Yes, Minister” –  Blurb from reviewer, “"...This is a work of voracious reading and unstoppable enthusiasm" --John Mullan, Evening Standard (UK) November 22, 2004” – 

Blurb from reviewer, “"I salute his hatred of soap operas, and the many sloppy films and TV shows and novels which have lost touch with the fascinating and emotionally satisfying business of story."

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Underlying the stories he examines are Seven Basic Plots: rags to riches; the quest; voyage and return; the hero as monster; rebirth and so on. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation. Blurb from reviewer, “"...this is the book you should put at the top of your list. With Booker's exploration, there is literally no story in the world which cannot be seen in a new light: we have come to the heart of what stories are about and why we tell them. Blurb from reviewer, “"....Scholarly but very readable....[Booker's] book is a fascinating one...."--Leicester Mercury (UK) Nov. 16, 2004” –  { Good Book Guide” –, “Like the previous reviewer, I didn't find the later parts of the book to be as convincing as the first, particularly the explanation of each of the seven plots.

}); }); $('#addtocartbutton-359162').click(function() { --Noonie Minogue, The Tablet (UK) Jan. 8, 2005” – 

Blurb from reviewer, “'This is literally an incomparable book, because there is nothing to compare it with.

'name': 'Scared to Death'

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--Peter Mullen, Northern Echo (UK) December 2004” – 

It ranks alongside Aristotle's Poetics. He covers Greek and Roman literature, fairy tales, European novel and plays, Arabic and Japanese tales, Native American folk tales, and movies from the silent era on. ga('send', 'event', 'UX', 'click', 'add to cart'); {

I genuiunely felt that "watcher-of-new-planet-in-the-skies" feeling on numerous occasions. ga('ec:addProduct', --Lavinia Byrne, Cheddar Valley Gazette (UK) Nov. 11, 2004” –  {

As an English major in my former life (i.e.

'name': 'Groupthink' It is so well planned with an excellent beginning and the contrasts and comparisons throughout are highly entertaining as well as informative and most original - and always extremely readable.'

He is an especially adept guide through the twists and characters of Wagner's operas. From The Epic of Gilgemesh to Jaws and Schindler's List, Christopher Booker examines in detail the stories that underlie literature and the plots that are basic to story telling through the ages. Christopher Booker was a founding editor of Private Eye, to which he regularly contributed, and also wrote a longstanding column for the Sunday Telegraph. Booker now interprets the mind of God, and analyses not just the novel - which will never to me be quite the same again - but puts the narrative of contemporary human affairs into a new perspective. --New Statesman” –, “"I shall be rattling this secret weapon, this golden key to all mythologies, in every door I come across for months to come."

'id': '9781472985224', --Susan Elderkind, novelist” –  His readers are the ultimate beneficiaries, and should be grateful to be so." ga('ec:setAction', 'add');

Seven Basic Plots is unquestionably his most important book to date. }); 1385 Broadway, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10018 USA, This website uses cookies to improve user experience.

It goes to the heart of man's cultural evolution through the stories we have told since storytelling began. Sade - Ulysses - Last Exit to Brooklyn - A Clockwork OrangeChapter 28 - Rebelllion Against the One Job - 1984Chapter 29 - The Mystery - Murders in the Rue Morgue - Sherlock Holmes - Citizen KaneChapter 30 - The Riddle of the Sphinx - Sophocles - Hamlet, “'Unusual... the author shows that stories can be seen to chart the psychological development of mankind.' Blurb from reviewer, “"a wonderful undertaking...I am happy that people are once again looking at stories in this way." It also made me want to read, or re-read a number of the books he refers to.

His prose is a model of clarity, and his lively enthusiasm for fiction of every description is infectious. --Adele Geras, Times Educational Supplement (UK), November 2004” –  --Rev. His artfully entertaining summaries jogged many warm memories of half-forgotten novels and films...The Seven Basic Plots is nevertheless one of most diverting works on storytelling I've ever encountered. Here, Christopher Booker moves on from some of the themes he outlined in his hugely bestselling book The Neophiliacs.

This remarkable and … This is a truly important book, an acolade often bestowed and rarely desrved in our modern age" -Dame Beryl Bainbridge, author of Every Man for Himself and winner of the Whitbred Novel Award” – 

“"It...needs considerable time to read and digest a book of such a size...Booker gives good arguements...[and] there's certainly enough here to digest and think about.

Blurb from reviewer, “'An enormous piece of work, not really one book at all but at least three ... nothing less than the story of all stories. It is as essential for anyone studying literature at degree level (not least because Booker is such an exemplary writer) as it is for anyone with the slightest interest in the world around them..." --Duncan Wu, Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, Times Higher Education Supplement (UK)” –  { --John Bayley, The Spectator (UK) November 13, 2004” – 

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I doubt whether any single volume has ever drawn on a wider range of stories, plays, novels and films than his...." -- Sunday Telegraph (Review)” –, “"Continuum may be deeply conservative in its view of modern storytelling as a reflection of society's moral decline, but this enormous tome is worth the work."

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Booker shows that the images and stories serve a far deeper and more significant purpose in our lives than we have realised. Geared more to undergraduates than graduates, this useful overview will prove valuable to writers as well as scholars. Blurb from reviewer, “"Booker`s knowledge and understanding of imaginative literature is unrivalled, his essays on the great authors both illuminating and stimulating. 'id': '9781472984654', Not only for anyone interested in literature, but also for those fascinated by wider questions of how human beings organise their societies and explain the outside world to their inmost selves, it is fascinating.' 'name': 'Groupthink' Blurb from reviewer, “"The achievement if monumental and a tribute to the passion with which (Booker) has pursued his interest in fiction and in story-telling....a compelling read which explains why a good work of fiction is far more than a comfort on a dark winter's evening or a companion on a train, and why it demands a psycholgical and emotional response on the part of the reader. --Times Literary Supplement (UK)” –  Blurb from reviewer, “'This book...has mind-expanding properties. 'name': 'The Great Deception' --Wells Journal (UK) November 2004” –  }); $('#addtocartbutton-274601').click(function() {

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Blurb from reviewer, “Booker compiles a Jungian taxonomy of stories, distilling the entire history of the fictive arts into a handful of flexible but unbreakable archetypes...and then extracts from those seven imaginative drops a single battle royal between Dark and Light." Katherine Sale, Financial Times (UK), October 22, 2004” – 

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In this magisterial work he examines the plots of films, opera libretti and the contemporary novel and short story. ga('ec:addProduct',

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Times Literary Supplement. Richard North.

'name': 'Groupthink' Came in very handy on a recent return trip to New Zealand (50+ hours potential reading time ) as aircraft reading.” –. "” –  Geoff Willmetts, SFCrowsnest.

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Wilson, Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov. 8, 2004” –  Blurb from reviewer, “"No critic [other than Booker] could have a more penetrating sense of why the great and the good in literature have earned their classic status, or a better nose for detecting a comparable excellence in new or unexpected places....Booker has been at work on this deep-flowing masterpiece of critical assessment for 34 years.
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--Cathal Dallat, poet” – 

}); $('#addtocartbutton-460234').click(function() { Seven Basic Plots is unquestionably his most important book to date.

Blurb from reviewer, “"The Seven Basic Plots takes its reader on an epic journey. ga('ec:setAction', 'add'); For in some ingenious way, by setting up a conversation with the human psyche, a good book reads us, just as much as we read it.

---Kasia Boddy, Daily Telegraph (UK), November 20, 2004” –, “"Christopher Booker has written a book of considerable value. --Christopher Fowler, Independent on Sunday (UK) Dec. 26, 2005” – 

Sir Antony Jay, co-author of Yes, Minister” –  Blurb from reviewer, “"...This is a work of voracious reading and unstoppable enthusiasm" --John Mullan, Evening Standard (UK) November 22, 2004” – 

Blurb from reviewer, “"I salute his hatred of soap operas, and the many sloppy films and TV shows and novels which have lost touch with the fascinating and emotionally satisfying business of story."

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ga('ec:setAction', 'add'); You can unsubscribe from newsletters at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any newsletter. ga('ec:setAction', 'add'); Booker writes as if intent on recreating for the reader his own (34 year) experience of travelling 'a long and complex journey.'
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Underlying the stories he examines are Seven Basic Plots: rags to riches; the quest; voyage and return; the hero as monster; rebirth and so on. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation. Blurb from reviewer, “"...this is the book you should put at the top of your list. With Booker's exploration, there is literally no story in the world which cannot be seen in a new light: we have come to the heart of what stories are about and why we tell them. Blurb from reviewer, “"....Scholarly but very readable....[Booker's] book is a fascinating one...."--Leicester Mercury (UK) Nov. 16, 2004” –  { Good Book Guide” –, “Like the previous reviewer, I didn't find the later parts of the book to be as convincing as the first, particularly the explanation of each of the seven plots.

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Blurb from reviewer, “'This is literally an incomparable book, because there is nothing to compare it with.

'name': 'Scared to Death'

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--Peter Mullen, Northern Echo (UK) December 2004” – 

It ranks alongside Aristotle's Poetics. He covers Greek and Roman literature, fairy tales, European novel and plays, Arabic and Japanese tales, Native American folk tales, and movies from the silent era on. ga('send', 'event', 'UX', 'click', 'add to cart'); {

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As an English major in my former life (i.e.

'name': 'Groupthink' It is so well planned with an excellent beginning and the contrasts and comparisons throughout are highly entertaining as well as informative and most original - and always extremely readable.'

He is an especially adept guide through the twists and characters of Wagner's operas. From The Epic of Gilgemesh to Jaws and Schindler's List, Christopher Booker examines in detail the stories that underlie literature and the plots that are basic to story telling through the ages. Christopher Booker was a founding editor of Private Eye, to which he regularly contributed, and also wrote a longstanding column for the Sunday Telegraph. Booker now interprets the mind of God, and analyses not just the novel - which will never to me be quite the same again - but puts the narrative of contemporary human affairs into a new perspective. --New Statesman” –, “"I shall be rattling this secret weapon, this golden key to all mythologies, in every door I come across for months to come."

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Seven Basic Plots is unquestionably his most important book to date. }); 1385 Broadway, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10018 USA, This website uses cookies to improve user experience.

It goes to the heart of man's cultural evolution through the stories we have told since storytelling began. Sade - Ulysses - Last Exit to Brooklyn - A Clockwork OrangeChapter 28 - Rebelllion Against the One Job - 1984Chapter 29 - The Mystery - Murders in the Rue Morgue - Sherlock Holmes - Citizen KaneChapter 30 - The Riddle of the Sphinx - Sophocles - Hamlet, “'Unusual... the author shows that stories can be seen to chart the psychological development of mankind.' Blurb from reviewer, “"a wonderful undertaking...I am happy that people are once again looking at stories in this way." It also made me want to read, or re-read a number of the books he refers to.

His prose is a model of clarity, and his lively enthusiasm for fiction of every description is infectious. --Adele Geras, Times Educational Supplement (UK), November 2004” –  --Rev. His artfully entertaining summaries jogged many warm memories of half-forgotten novels and films...The Seven Basic Plots is nevertheless one of most diverting works on storytelling I've ever encountered. Here, Christopher Booker moves on from some of the themes he outlined in his hugely bestselling book The Neophiliacs.

This remarkable and … This is a truly important book, an acolade often bestowed and rarely desrved in our modern age" -Dame Beryl Bainbridge, author of Every Man for Himself and winner of the Whitbred Novel Award” – 

“"It...needs considerable time to read and digest a book of such a size...Booker gives good arguements...[and] there's certainly enough here to digest and think about.

Blurb from reviewer, “'An enormous piece of work, not really one book at all but at least three ... nothing less than the story of all stories. It is as essential for anyone studying literature at degree level (not least because Booker is such an exemplary writer) as it is for anyone with the slightest interest in the world around them..." --Duncan Wu, Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, Times Higher Education Supplement (UK)” –  { --John Bayley, The Spectator (UK) November 13, 2004” – 

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I doubt whether any single volume has ever drawn on a wider range of stories, plays, novels and films than his...." -- Sunday Telegraph (Review)” –, “"Continuum may be deeply conservative in its view of modern storytelling as a reflection of society's moral decline, but this enormous tome is worth the work."

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