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The princess bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure. The "good parts" version, abridged.

Author: William Goldman
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1973]
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : [1st ed.]View all editions and formats
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"A Del Rey book." The most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world.
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Genre/Form: Romance fiction
Fantasy fiction
Action and adventure fiction
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Adventure fiction
Love stories
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Goldman, William, 1931-
Princess bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure.
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1973]
(OCoLC)557847380
Online version:
Goldman, William, 1931-
Princess bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure.
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1973]
(OCoLC)608583315
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Goldman
ISBN: 0151730857 9780151730858 9780156035217 0156035219 0345315324 9780345315328 0345348036 9780345348036 034543014X 9780345430144 0899668097 9780899668093 9780747590583 0747590583
OCLC Number: 624008
Description: 308 pages 22 cm

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In this 30th anniversary edition, Goldman frames the famous fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story; his father had abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an  Read more...

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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 Read more...

 
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