The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - Christopher Booker

Category: Adults, Education, Tutorial
Language: English
Keywords: Comedy Overcoming The Monster Rags To Riches rebirth The Quest Tragedy Voyage And Return Writing

Written by Christopher Booker
Read by Liam Gerrard
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 03-05-19
Publisher: Tantor Audio

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 novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it reveals that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.

But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are “programmed” to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have “lost the plot” by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose.

Booker analyzes 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 5,000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.

The book is broken down into seven parts, one for each plot with each part broken into chapters. Each chapter is than broken down into authors and examples. I have included an ebook to help you navigate these 39 hours.