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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Mass Market Paperback – October 8, 2007

by William Goldman (Author)

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William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless.

Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in these pages. Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “abridged” retelling of a centuries-old tale set in the fabled country of Florin that's home to “Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions.”

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PRAISE FOR THE PRINCESS BRIDE

"[Goldman's] swashbuckling fable is nutball funny . . . A 'classic' medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers." --Newsweek

"One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time." --Los Angeles Times

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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.

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Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Harcourt; Reprint edition (October 8, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0156035219
ISBN-13: 978-0156035217
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.3 x 6.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 7,284 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Classics
- #21 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Humorous
- #43 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Classics

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Fritz McGee

A Must Read for every Princess Bride Fan

December 3, 2015

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I've grown up watching the movie roughly 396 times a year and will always deem it as my all-time most favorite movie ever. So naturally, when I found out that the movie was actually based on a novel, I had to have it. My biggest fear was that it would be a watered down version of the movie with less humor and wit, or that the movie took the best parts and the book would be mostly unsatisfying filler with the occasional recognizable humor. I couldn't have been more wrong.

I daresay the book has even more humor and more wit than the film adaptation. William Goldman's story telling is pure genius, writing from a satirical 1st person perspective of how he created an abridged version of an old non-fictional book from a fictional country written by a fictional author. As you read through the "abridged version" you will frequently stumble across familiar lines you've come to love from the film ("INCONCEIVABLE!") but with slight variations in certain parts (ex. a more detailed story of how Wesley and Buttercup fall in love on the farm), and often times even more brilliant substance added to classic scenes you already love (Prince Humperdink's Zoo of Death).

You also gain a better understanding of the film and why certain scenes play out the way that they do, such as why Inigo drunkenly yells out to Vizzini that he's going "back to the beginning" and the backstories to both Inigo and Fezzik beginning from childhood.

After reading the book you'll have a newfound appreciation for the movie which you'll see is a fantastic adaptation, and you'll have a fantastic time wrapped around Goldman's hilarious finger as he guides you through a truly wonderful story that feels exactly like the timeless classic we've enjoyed watching for years.

If you've never seen the movies, you'll like the book. If you've seen the movie a million times like I have, you'll LOVE the book. It's truly a must have for every Princess Bride fan. You won't be disappointed.

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Robbit

I'm Glad I Waited....

October 10, 2017

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

I've been trying to get a quality, and attractive, hardcover version of this book for years. I've simply always been a day late and a dollar short. For once that worked in my favor.

This is, by far, the nicest version of the book I've ever seen. No cheap anniversary text on the cover, like the 25th Anniversary Edition. Much more attractive than the foolishly short run of the Eastman (I believe) edition. I just missed that one and it shot up in price, nonsensically. A blessing in disguise. This one is far superior.

It's a nice, larger, book, with good size text and nicely spaced. The brown color of the book, with the gold accents really go well together. Add the rough cut of the page edges and it really comes across as an old fashioned classic. The illustrations are done nicely as well. I don't know if they could have done anything better.

If you're looking for a beautiful, classic looking edition of the book that is a good size to read and will look great on your bookshelf, this is the one. I tip my hat to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Timothy Short

This book is relentlessly witty and funny, and had I known anything about this book ...

July 31, 2016

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

This book is relentlessly witty and funny, and had I known anything about this book at a younger age I could have enjoyed it much sooner. The Princess Bride is a ficticious account of a ficticious place by a ficticious "S. Morgenstern." The real author of the book and creator of the loved characters, William Goldberg, writes as though the Princess Bride existed before his birth. He says his father read it to him as a child. He wants to get a copy for his own son but admits the tome of tedious detail is punishing to a casual reader so he "abridges" the voluminous Princess Bride into a "good parts" version. The humor works very well and the characters are endearing. If you liked the movie you should know all the actos read this book and that is precisely how they landed on the fickle tone and humor of the story. It is a bit racier than the movie, for you parents out there....

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Kevin Dau

Great humor! Classy, quality feel. But it's a different experience of the story from the movie.

December 10, 2013

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I love this classy edition with illustrations that intentionally avoid tying in with the movie. There is so much more humor in the book than they could pack into the movie. However, be aware that the fuller treatment of the book does put a bit of a different take on the characters and if you love the way they're depicted in the movie, you may be put out at times by the book. It would be best to say the the book and the movie are two different experiences of the same story.

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Abby Thorne

Text Missing in this Edition of a Beloved Book

December 7, 2017

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Please know that I love this story, I love this book, and I love the movie. To me deserves 5 stars. But this particular ebook edition has an editing error and I don't know where else to report it. There's at least a paragraph of text missing on page 194. It's the part of the book where the "editor" of the good parts version interjects to explain that he wrote a reconciliation scene between the lovers because there is no such scene in the unedited original. A significant portion of that explanation is missing from my copy of the ebook. The missing segment occurs mid paragraph too, which makes for an abrupt and incoherent shift. Here's a transcript of where the problem is:

"This is me, and I'm not trying to be confusing, but the above paragraph that I'm cutting into now is verbatim Morgenstern; he was continually referring to his wife in the unabridged book, saying that she [THIS IS WHERE THE MISSING TEXT SHOULD BE] he was with a generous publishing house (they all stink--sorry about that, Mr. Jovanovich), so let me just add here..."

I'd appreciate it if someone from Amazon would contact the publisher about this issue so that they can reinsert the missing text and send correct copies to everyone who buys this ebook. If this happens, then I'll update this review and change the star rating to 5, which is the rating that this story truly deserves.

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