The Seven Basic Plots - Christopher Booker [521]
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Lancelyn Green, Roger, Myths of the Norsemen, Puffin Books, London, 1960
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, translated by D. C. Lau, Penguin Classics, London, 1963.
Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology, Batchworth Press, London, 1959
Lawrence, D. H., A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Penguin Books, 1961.
Lawrence, D. H., Studies in Classical American Literature, Penguin Books, London, 1971.
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, translated by Paul Turner, Penguin Classics, 1956
Lucas, George, Star Wars, A Novel, Ballantine Books, New York, 1976.
Mann, Thomas, Doctor Faustus, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, Secker and Warburg, London, 1949.
Maugham, Somerset, Ten Novels And Their Authors, Heinemann, 1954.
Menander, Plays and Fragments, translated by Philip Vellacott, Penguin Classics, 1967.
Moliere, The Miser and Other Plays, translated by John Wood, Penguin Classics, 1953.
Moliere, The Misanthrope and Other Plays, translated by John Wood, Penguin Classics, 1959.
Mumford, Lewis, The City In History, Pelican Books, London, 1966.
Neumann, Erich, The Great Mother Archetype, Routledge, Kegan Paul, London, 1955.
Neumann, Erich, The Origins And History of Consciousness, Princeton University, 1954.
Opie, Peter and Iona, The Classic Fairy Tales, Oxford University Press, 1974.
Painter, George, Marcel Proust: A Biography (2 vols.), Chatto and Windus, 1959.
Pearson, John, The Life of Ian Fleming, Cape, London, 1966
Pirandello, Luigi, Three Plays, J. M. Dent, London, 1929.
Plato, The Republic, translated by H. D. P. Lee, Penguin Classics (London, 1955).
Plautus, The Pot Of Gold and Other Plays, translated by E. F. Watling, Penguin Classics, 1975.
Praz, Mario, The Romantic Agony, Oxford University Press, 1933.
Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past (3 vols.), translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Chatto and Windus, London, 1981.
Quest Of The Holy Grail, translated by P. M. Matarasso, Penguin Classics, 1969.
Sade, Marquis de, The Misfortunes of Virtue, translated by David Coward, Oxford World Classics, 1992.
Sophocles, The Theban Plays, translated by E. F. Watling, Penguin Classics, London, 1947.
Spielberg, Steven, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Sphere Books, London, 1978.
Stendhal, Scarlet and Black (Le Rouge et Le Noir), translated by Margaret Shaw, Penguin Classics, 1953
Tales From The Thousand and One Nights, translated by N. J. Dawood, Penguin Classics, London, 1955.
Tomasello, Michael, The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, Harvard University Press, 2000.
Upanishads, The, translated by Juan Mascaro, Penguin Classics, London, 1965.
Van der Post, Laurens, The Heart Of The Hunter, Hogarth Press, 1968.
Van der Post, Laurens (with Jane Taylor), Testament To The Bushmen, Viking, London, 1984.
Virgil, The Aeneid, translated by W. Jackson Knight, Penguin Classics, London, 1956.
Vyvyan, John, The Shakespearian Ethic, Chatto and Windus, 1959.
Whistler, Laurens, Scenes and Signs on Glass, John Murray, 1985.
Whitmont, Edward, The Symbolic Quest, Barrie and Rockliff, London, 1969.
Wilson, Edmund, Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the 1940s, W. H. Allen, London, 1950.
1. In many conversations I had about this book during the years when it was being written, the explanation most commonly offered as to why we like stories was that they satisfy our need for `escapism'. Certainly this describes the way we often use stories, as a means to escape out of the `real world' into that realm of fantasy or imagination we find so beguiling. But in no way does it explain why we should be able to find diversion in this particular way. As soon as we begin to explore the psychology behind our ability to imagine stories, it becomes obvious that this `explanation' in fact explains nothing.
2. Frustratingly, there is no reference to this in the extensive surviving correspondence between Schiller and Gozzi, the leading German and Italian playwrights