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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780345418265 |
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As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.
Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.
What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.
In short, it's about everything.
Eventually to be adapted for the silver screen, The Princess Bride was originally a beautifully simple, insightfully comic story of what happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world — and he turns out to be a son of a bitch. Guaranteed to entertain both young and old alike by combining scenes of rowsing fantasy with hilarious reality, The Princess Bride secures Goldman's place as a master storyteller.
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Angel of Starlight, December 8, 2007 (view all comments by Angel of Starlight)
This story is very different from the popular film, but it is still a respectable work of modern fiction. It is often rather dark, however, and that does include the ending. This is definitely not a book to read to the very small kiddos, but a slightly older set will genuinely appreciate it.
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jengem, September 28, 2006 (view all comments by jengem)
WOW! The princess bride by William Goldman is worth half my book collection!- I can?t even express how awesome this book is! My words could never do it justice. If you have watched the princess bride movie movie- you may have watched a grate movie- but your still missing out if you haven?t read the book- This story gets 1,000,000 stars, not 5- but sadly I can only click up to five.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780345418265
- Subtitle:
- S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Libri
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Princesses
- Subject:
- Good and evil
- Subject:
- Fantasy - General
- Subject:
- Fantasy fiction
- Subject:
- Fantasy - Historical
- Subject:
- Love stories
- Subject:
- Princes
- Subject:
- Adventure fiction
- Edition Number:
- 30
- Edition Description:
- 30th anniversary ed., 1st trade pbk. ed.
- Abridged:
- Y
- Series Volume:
- 1737-16
- Publication Date:
- July 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 480
- Dimensions:
- 8.24x5.58x1.13 in. .82 lbs.
