The Princess Bride by William Goldman
››› Get audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: The Princess Bride ISBN: 0345418263 ISBN13: 9780345418265 Autor: William Goldman Rating: 3.3 of 5 stars (4695) counts Original Format: Paperback, 398 pages Download Format: PDF, TXT, ePub, iBook. Published: July 15th 2003 / by Ballantine Books (Ballantine Reader's Circle) / (first published 1973) Language: English Genre(s): Fantasy- 11,390 users Fiction- 4,098 users Classics- 3,828 users Romance- 2,413 users Humor- 1,333 users Adventure- 1,183 users Young Adult- 1,136 users
Description: 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.
About Author:
Goldman grew up in a Jewish family in Highland Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, and obtained a BA degree at Oberlin College in 1952 and an MA degree at Columbia University in 1956.His brother was the late , author and playwright. William Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays. Several of his novels he later used as the foundation for his screenplays. In the 1980s he wrote a series of memoirs looking at his professional life on Broadway and in Hollywood (in one of these he famously remarked that "Nobody knows anything"). He then returned to writing novels. He then adapted his novel to the , which marked his re-entry into screenwriting. Goldman has won two Academy Awards: an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for All the President's Men. He has also won two Edgar Awards, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay: for Harper in 1967, and for Magic (adapted from his own 1976 novel) in 1979.
Other Editions:
- The Princess Bride (Mass Market Paperback)
- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern\'s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (Mass Market Paperback)
- The Princess Bride (Kindle Edition)
- The Princess Bride (Paperback)
- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern\'s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (Hardcover)
- The Princess Bride (Mass Market Paperback)
- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern\'s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (Mass Market Paperback)
- The Princess Bride (Kindle Edition)
- The Princess Bride (Paperback)
- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern\'s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (Hardcover)
- The Princess Bride (Mass Market Paperback)
- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern\'s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (Mass Market Paperback)
- The Princess Bride (Kindle Edition)
- The Princess Bride (Paperback)
- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern\'s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (Hardcover)
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- Adventures in the Screen Trade
- Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
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- Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
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Rewiews:
Feb 25, 2009 Chris Rated it: it was amazing Shelves: top-shelf, humor, fantasy If you haven't read this book, then all I can tell you is to go out, get it, and read it. Now. Don't bother with the rest of this review, you'll thank me later. It has:
Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Good men. Bad men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles. For a start. It's one of the greatest love/action/revenge stories ever abridged If you haven't read this book, then all I can tell you is to go out, get it, and read it. Now. Don't bother with the rest of this review, you'll thank me later. It has: Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Good men. Bad men. Beautifulest ladies.
Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles. For a start. It's one of the greatest love/action/revenge stories ever abridged by a modern author. Well, it seems that Mr. Goldman felt that the original story, as written by the immortal S. Morganstern, was a little too dry for public consumption, as well as damaging to treasured childhood memories, so he went through it and put together this "good parts" version, and the world is a better place for it. [1:] Of course, the big gag is that there never was an original version of the book. There never was an S. Morganstern, the greatest of the Florinese writers. Goldman's father may have read books to him as a child, but he never read this book to him. The entire thing is a fiction, beginning to end, but Goldman sells it really well. He tells the tale of how he blossomed as a boy - going from being a sports-obsessed disappointment to a ravenous bookworm, all thanks to this book. He talks about trying to give the same gift to his son, who manages to make it through one chapter before giving up in exhaustion. He talks about the great shock of discovering that his father had done something utterly brilliant - he had skipped the dull bits and left the exciting parts intact. Knowing that all of this is false certainly doesn't detract from the story. It's a story about a story, and the effect that a story can have on a young mind. Or any mind, for that matter. It's about how stories can teach us lessons that only later we understand - such as how life is not fair - and how stories can change us in ways that we never expected. It's about our relationship with fiction, and with the world around us. In his fictional childhood, Goldman learned more about the world from the process of watching the story unfold than he did from the story itself. And so this book is a story about stories. The actual story is just bonus. Which brings me, of course, to the film. Let me say that this is one of the very, very few instances where I will put the movie up on par with the book. 99.9999 repeating percent of the time, the book is better than the movie. This is one instance where they are equal in nearly every measure. I'm sure a lot of this has to do with the fact that Goldman wrote the screenplay for the film, so not only is the story intact, but a great deal of the dialogue is almost verbatim from the book. It was gold in print and gold on the screen. The hardest part about reading the book is trying not to hear Andre the Giant, Christopher Guest, Robin Wright and all the other fine actors and actresses in your
head as you read. So, whether you read the book or see the movie, you're in for a treat. And as you read, just remember the books that molded you into who you are today. Think about the stories that taught you life's lessons before life got around to doing it. Think about them and appreciate them, and remember that every book is a lesson, one way or another.... [1:] This is a fun type of meta-fiction, writers writing autobiographically about writing about books that never existed. I find it interesting that The Princess Bride can sit comfortably shoulder-toshoulder with House of Leaves. 685 likes 43 comments
