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

Goldman, William

ISBN 10: 034543014X / ISBN 13: 9780345430144

Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998

About this Item

The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998. Tenth (10th) Printing (number line consisting of 10) of the 25th Anniversary Edition (a special edition). The novel was originally published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1973. As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, quite tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is brown quarter cloth to beige boards, colors uniform throughout, with bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked map endpapers showing Guilder and Florin and the sea between them, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - uniformly bright and fully intact with the original price ($24.95) intact on the front flap. See the photos. xiv, [i], 399,[i] pages. 5 7/8" x 8 5/8". This special edition "includes a new Introduction by William Goldman, and the first chapter of Buttercup's Baby, the long lost sequel to The Princess Bride!" (from the dust jacket). The first edition of this wonderful novel failed to sell, and only after the movie came out, did the written work get its recognition with reprints. A fantasy romance novel, it combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, drama, romance, and fairy tale. It is metafictionally presented as an abridgment of a longer work by the fictional S. Morgenstern, and Goldman's "commentary" asides are constant throughout. Literary devices include a fictional frame story about how Goldman came to know about and decided to adapt S. Morgenstern's book. ISBN 10: 034543014X / ISBN 13: 9780345430144.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure - The Good Parts Version
• Publisher: The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 034543014X
• ISBN 13: 9780345430144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 25th Anniversary Edition (Special Editio
• Printing: 10th Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Once upon a time came a story so full of high adventure and true love that it became an instant classic and won the hearts of millions. Now in hardcover in America for the first time since 1973, this special edition of The Princess Bride is a true keepsake for devoted fans as well as those lucky enough to discover it for the first time. What reader can forget or resist such colorful characters as

Westley . . . handsome farm boy who risks death and much, much worse for the woman he loves; Inigo . . . the Spanish swordsman who lives only to avenge his father's death; Fezzik . . . the Turk, the gentlest giant ever to have uprooted a tree with his bare hands; Vizzini . . . the evil Sicilian, with a mind so keen he's foiled by his own perfect logic; Prince Humperdinck . . . the eviler ruler of Guilder, who has an equally insatiable thirst for war and the beauteous Buttercup; Count Rugen . . . the evilest man of all, who thrives on the excruciating pain of others; Miracle Max. . . the King's ex-Miracle Man, who can raise the dead (kind of); The Dread Pirate Roberts . . . supreme looter and plunderer of the high seas; and, of course, Buttercup . . . the princess bride, the most perfect, beautiful woman in the history of the world.

S. Morgenstern's timeless tale--discovered and wonderfully abridged by William Goldman--pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate. From the Cliffs of Insanity through the Fire Swamp and down into the Zoo of Death, this incredible journey and brilliant tale is peppered with strange beasties monstrous and gentle, and memorable surprises both terrible and sublime.

About the Author

William Goldman has been writing books and movies for more than forty years. He has won two Academy Awards (for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men), and three Lifetime Achievement awards in screenwriting. His novel Marathon Man has made him very famous in dentist's offices around the world.