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Egri's book is an outstanding work for narrative writers seeking to move to the next level in their storytelling. Egri's idea on establishing a strong, focused premise around which to develop the narrative has many disciples today--Robert McKee's Story and Stanley Williams's The Moral Premise being two good examples--but Egri's focus on stage plays sets it apart from almost all of those subsequent works, which are directed toward screenwriting. Nevertheless, in spite of its emphasis on the theater, Egri's ideas work for writers of any narrative form--novels, plays, screenplays. I would recommend this book to any writer seeking to improve his or her sense of story.

But I wouldn't buy this edition again under any circumstance!! The formatting is bizarre. The text is in a tiny, tiny font with unindented paragraphs with no space between the paragraphs. The only way to determine where a paragraph ends is when a line stops partway across the page, but occasionally lines end somewhere in the middle of the page as well as the middle of a sentence and continue the incomplete sentence on the next line. Throw in occasional misspellings, entire sections omitted from Ergi's original book, no index...this version is a trainwreck! Any publisher who would do this to a book and its readers has a pretty low regard for both books and readers.Get more detail about The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives.