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  2. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Basic Plots has received mixed responses from scholars and journalists. Some have celebrated the book's audacity and breadth; for example, the author and essayist Fay Weldon wrote the following: "This is the most extraordinary, exhilarating book. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation.

  3. List of alternate history fiction - Wikipedia

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    The plot follows several American paratroopers who are dropped behind enemy lines in an Alternate 1940s, where the US Armed Forces are desegregated in 1944 (In real life the US military was desegregated on July 26, 1948) the day before D-Day and discover terrifying Nazi experiments. 2019 Yesterday: Danny Boyle

  4. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia

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    This list was published in a book of the same name, which contains extended explanations and examples. The original French-language book was written in 1895. [3] An English translation was published in 1916 and continues to be reprinted. The list was popularized as an aid for writers, but is also used by dramatists, storytellers and others ...

  5. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    The book, I take it, begins to grow out of the thought of the processional march of the generations, always changing, always renewed; its figures are sought and chosen for the clarity with which the drama is embodied in them." [66] He directly mentions conflict when referring to the plot of War and Peace [67] with analyzing Madame Bovary [68 ...

  6. A Series of Unfortunate Events - Wikipedia

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    The plots of the first seven books follow the same basic pattern: the Baudelaires go to a new guardian in a new location, where Count Olaf appears and attempts to steal their fortune. The books following pick up where the previous book ended. [20] There are thirteen books in the series and each book has thirteen chapters.

  7. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    The plot of the book unveils the last period in the life of Jesus Christ as revealed through the first-hand experience of two pilots (or rather "timenauts"), members of a US Air Force top-secret military experimental project on time travel codenamed "Operation Trojan Horse", who in 1973 supposedly succeeded in travelling back in time to the ...

  8. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Plot is the cause‐and‐effect sequence of main events in a story. [1] Story events are numbered chronologically while red plot events are a subset connected logically by "so". In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect ...

  9. Shatter Me - Wikipedia

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    Shatter Me is a young adult dystopian romantic thriller written by Tahereh Mafi, published on November 15, 2011. [1] The book is narrated by Juliette, a 17-year-old girl with a lethal touch and is unusual in that it contains passages and lines that have been crossed out like a diary entry. [2]