The Best Stories in the World
Title | The Best Stories in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas L. Masson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Anecdotes |
ISBN |
Great Short Stories of the World
Title | Great Short Stories of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Barrett Harper Clark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1096 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN |
177 short stories.
Stories Make the World
Title | Stories Make the World PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Most |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-06 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1785335766 |
Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author’s decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.
The Seven Basic Plots
Title | The Seven Basic Plots PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Booker |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 737 |
Release | 2005-11-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441116516 |
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 shows 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 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. 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.
A World of Great Stories
Title | A World of Great Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Hiram Haydn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 950 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN |
A collection of 115 stories, modern literature, world literature.
All the Time in the World
Title | All the Time in the World PDF eBook |
Author | E.L. Doctorow |
Publisher | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012-01-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0812982037 |
From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world.” Containing six unforgettable stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous classics, All the Time in the World is resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow.
The World's Greatest Short Stories
Title | The World's Greatest Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | James Daley |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-03-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486114791 |
Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, this wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable anthology includes Tolstoy, Kipling, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Pirandello, Mann, Updike, Borges, and other major writers of world literature.