The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

Goldman, William

ISBN 10: 0345348036 / ISBN 13: 9780345348036

Published by Del Rey, New York, 1992

About this Item

This book is in excellent, near fine condition. The cover is clean and unmarked. The spine has not been cracked. The binding is sound. There are no loose pages. The pages are clean and clear. Contains a colour, fold-out map bound into the front of the book in great condition. A beautiful book.

Seller Inventory # 028964

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
• Publisher: Del Rey, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345348036
• ISBN 13: 9780345348036
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • RARE

About this title

Synopsis

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?

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 turnsout 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.

About the Author

William Goldman is a novelist and screenwriter whose books include Boys and Girls Together, Marathon Man, and The Silent Gondoliers: a Fable by S. Morgenstern. Movies he has written include "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Stepford Wives," "All the President's Men," "Marathon Man," and "A Bridge Too Far."