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Here William Goldmans beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers finally receives a beautiful illustrated treatment.. A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts - The Princess Bride is a modern storytelling classic.. As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss of her true love, kidnapped by a mercenary and his henchman, rescued by a pirate, forced to marry Prince Humperdinck, and rescued once again by the very crew who absconded with her in the first place. In the course of this dazzling adventure, shell meet Vizzini - the criminal philosopher wholl do anything for a bag of gold; Fezzik - the gentle giant; Inigo - the Spaniard whose steel thirsts for revenge; and Count Rugen - the evil mastermind behind it all. Foiling all their plans and jumping into their stories is Westley, Princess Buttercups one true love and a very good friend of a very dangerous pirate.
About the 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 won two Academy Awards: an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for , and an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for . He also won two Edgar Awards, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay: for in 1967, and for (adapted from his own 1976 novel) in 1979. Goldman died in New York City on November 16, 2018, due to complications from colon cancer and pneumonia. He was eighty-seven years old.
