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((Short description|1973 fantasy romance novel by William Goldman))
((Use American English|date=August 2022))
((Use mdy dates|date=October 2021))
((Infobox book
| image         = The Princess Bride (First Edition).jpg
| caption       = [[Slipcase]] cover of the deluxe first edition of ''The Princess Bride''
| author        = [[William Goldman]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| genre         = Fantasy novel<br>[[Romance (love)|Romance]]
| publisher     = [[Harcourt Trade Publishers|Harcourt Brace Jovanovich]] (USA)
| release_date  = 1973
| isbn          = 0-345-41826-3
| dewey         = 813/.54 22
| congress      = PS3557.O384 P75 2003
| oclc          = 53223777
| pages         = 493))
'''''The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version''''' is a 1973 fantasy romance novel by American writer [[William Goldman]]. The book combines elements of comedy, [[adventure fiction|adventure]], fantasy, drama, romance, and [[fairy tale]].  It is [[Metafiction|metafictionally]] presented as an [[abridgment]] of a longer work by the fictional S. Morgenstern, and Goldman's "commentary" asides are constant throughout. It was originally published in the United States by [[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt Brace]], then later by [[Random House]], while in the United Kingdom it was later published by [[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]].

The book was adapted into [[The Princess Bride (film)|a 1987 feature film]] directed by [[Rob Reiner]], starring [[Robin Wright]] and [[Cary Elwes]].  

William Goldman said, "I've gotten more responses on ''The Princess Bride'' than on everything else I've done put together—all kinds of strange outpouring letters. Something in ''The Princess Bride'' affects people."<ref name="Andersen p 82">((Harvnb | Andersen | 1979 | p = 82)).</ref>

When the original edition failed to sell well, author/editor [[Spider Robinson]] convinced Goldman to let him excerpt the novel, namely the "Duel Scene", in the anthology ''The Best of All Possible Worlds'' (1980). Robinson believes this helped the novel reach the right audience.<ref>((Cite web |last=Von Ruff |first=Al |title=William Goldman |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2329 |access-date=February 18, 2013 |publisher=[[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]] |type=summary bibliography))</ref><ref>((Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Spider |title=Born On The Same Day, or, So Much For Astrology…plus, Paying It Forward (Entry 75) |url=http://spiderrobinson.com/blog.html |access-date=January 29, 2024))</ref> In 2015, a collection of essays on the novel and the film adaptation was published entitled ''The Princess Bride and Philosophy''.<ref>((Cite book |title=The Princess Bride and Philosophy |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2015 |isbn=9780812699142 |editor-last=Greene |editor-first=Richard |location=Hoboken, NJ |editor-last2=Robinson-Greene |editor-first2=Rachel))</ref>

==Plot==
((long plot|date=December 2023))
[[File:Florin.Guilder.map.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Map of Florin and Guilder]]

In a [[Renaissance]]-era world, a young woman named Buttercup lives on a farm in the country of Florin. She bosses her poor servant, Westley, calling him "farm boy" and demanding that he perform chores for her. Westley's response is always "As you wish." She realizes that the true meaning is, "I love you." After Buttercup realizes that she loves him in return and confesses her feelings, Westley goes to seek his fortune so they can marry, promising to return. Buttercup later receives a letter saying that the [[Dread Pirate Roberts]] attacked Westley's ship at sea. Believing that Westley is dead, she sinks into despair. Years later, she is betrothed to Prince Humperdinck, heir to the throne of Florin.
 
Before the wedding, a trio of outlaws&mdash;the [[Sicily|Sicilian]] criminal genius Vizzini, the Hispanic [[fencing]] master Inigo, and the enormous and mighty [[Turkish people|Turkish]] wrestler Fezzik, kidnaps Buttercup. When they are pursued, the foursome climbs the Cliffs of Insanity via a rope. A man dressed fully in black pursues them. When the outlaws reach the top, Vizzini cuts the rope, but the man in black clings to the cliff face. Vizzini orders Inigo to kill the man, then runs off with Fezzik and Buttercup.

The man in black reaches the top of the cliff, where Inigo asks if he has six fingers on his right hand. After the man answers no, Inigo explains that he is seeking revenge on a [[polydactyly|six-fingered]] man who had killed Inigo's father Domingo Montoya.  He and the man in black begin dueling with their left hands, and both are shown to be masters of fencing. After a lengthy battle, both parties reveal that they have not been fighting with their dominant hands and begin to do so. The man in black wins the duel but leaves the [[Spaniards|Spaniard]] alive out of respect.

When the man pursues the remaining outlaws, Vizzini orders Fezzik to stay behind and kill him. His conscience compelling him to fair play, Fezzik throws a rock as a warning to the man in black and challenges him to a wrestling match. The man accepts the challenge, outmaneuvers the giant, and chokes him until he passes out. The man in black then catches up with Vizzini. When he arrives, Buttercup has been blindfolded and a table has been set up with two seats and two wine goblets. The man in black procures a vial of the deadly "iocane powder" and challenges the Sicilian to a Battle of the Wits. The man in black takes both cups, poisons one, and returns them to the table. After distracting the man in black, Vizzini discreetly switches the cups. When the man tells Vizzini to make his choice, he confidently chooses the cup in front of him, and they drink. While laughing hysterically, Vizzini reveals that he switched the cups but soon falls over and dies. The man in black explains to Buttercup that he poisoned both cups, having built up an immunity to iocane powder beforehand. 


The man in black taunts Buttercup, claiming that women cannot be trusted and that she must have felt nothing when her true love died. Angered, she shoves him into a gorge, yelling, "You can die, too, for all I care!" The man in black calls, "As you wish!" Buttercup realizes the man is Westley and follows him into the gorge. They passionately embrace, but Prince Humperdink's men appear. Buttercup and Westley flee through the Fire Swamp to evade Humperdinck's party. At Buttercup's insistence, Westley tells  her about his experience with the Dread Pirate Roberts and that the title is secretly passed down through a long line of men, each being captured by the previous Roberts. Westley explains how his love for Buttercup inspired the former Roberts to spare his life.

Westley and Buttercup successfully navigate the Fire Swamp, but they are captured by Prince Humperdinck and his cruel six-fingered assistant, Count Tyrone Rugen. Buttercup negotiates for Westley's release and returns with Humperdinck to the palace to await their wedding. Rugen follows Humperdinck's secret instructions not to release Westley but to take him to his underground hunting arena, the "Zoo of Death". Here, Rugen tortures and weakens Westley with his life-sucking invention, The Machine. 

Meanwhile, Buttercup has nightmares regarding her marriage to the prince. She expresses her unhappiness to Humperdinck, who proposes that he send ships to locate Westley, but that if they fail to find him, Buttercup will marry him. The novel reveals that to start a war with the neighboring country of Guilder, Humperdinck had arranged Buttercup's kidnapping and murder, but he now believes that Buttercup dying on her wedding night will inspire his subjects to fight more effectively.

On the day of the wedding, Fezzik finds Inigo reverted to his old habit of drunkness, and he tells him that Count Rugen is the six-fingered man who killed his father. Inspired by the chance of revenge, Fezzik helps Inigo become sober. Knowing that Vizzini is dead, they seek out the man in black hoping that his wits will help them plan a successful attack on the castle to kill Count Rugen. Buttercup learns that Humperdinck never sent any ships and taunts him with her enduring love for Westley. Enraged, Humperdinck tortures Westley to death via The Machine. Westley's screams echo across the land, drawing Inigo and Fezzik to the Zoo of Death. 

Rescuing Westley's body, they enlist the help of a magician named Miracle Max. Max pronounces Westley to be merely "mostly dead" and returns him to life, though he remains partially paralyzed and weak. 

Westley devises a plan to invade the castle during the wedding, and the resulting commotion prompts Humperdinck to hasten the wedding. Buttercup decides to commit suicide when she reaches the honeymoon suite. Inigo [[chases]] [[Principality of Rügen|Rugen]] through the castle and kills him in a sword fight. Westley reaches Buttercup before she commits suicide, and they embrace. Still partially paralyzed, Westley bluffs his way out of a sword fight with Humperdinck, who shows himself as a coward. Instead of killing his rival, Westley decides to leave him alive. He, Buttercup, Fezzik, and Inigo ride into the sunset on four of the prince's white horses. The story ends with a series of mishaps and the prince's men closing in, but the author indicates that he believes that the group got away.

==Context==
((More citations needed section|date=March 2008))
This novel includes several [[List of narrative techniques|narrative techniques]] or literary devices including a fictional [[frame story]] about how Goldman came to know about and decided to adapt S. Morgenstern's ''The Princess Bride''.<ref name=":0">((Cite book |title=A Study Guide for William Goldman's "The Princess Bride" |publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4144-4947-0 |editor-last=Constantakis |editor-first=Sara |series=Novels for Students |volume=31 |location=Farmington Hills, MI |pages=1–2))</ref> In Goldman's "footnotes," he describes how his father used to read ''The Princess Bride'' aloud to him; thus the book became Goldman's favorite without him ever actually reading the text. As a father, Goldman looked forward to sharing the story with his own son, going to great lengths to locate a copy for his son's birthday, only to be crushed when his son stops reading after the first chapter. When Goldman revisits the book himself, he discovers that what he believed was a straightforward adventure novel was in fact a bitter satire of politics in Morgenstern's native Florin, and that his father had been skipping all the political commentary and leaving in only "the good parts." This moves Goldman to abridge the book to a version resembling the one his father had read to him, while adding notes to summarize material he had "removed." Morgenstern and the "original version" are fictitious and used as a literary device to comment on the nature of adaptation and to draw a contrast between the love and adventure of the main story and the mundane aspects of everyday life.<ref name=":0" /> The nations of Guilder and Florin are likewise pure fiction.<ref name=":0" /> Each section or chapter takes place in a certain setting or place. It's an episodic structure with each "episode" taking place in a specific part of the Kingdom of Florin (the Cliffs of Insanity, the Fire Swamp or the Forest of Thieves). <ref name=":2">((Cite book |last=Alfonso |first=Eva |title=The Adventure Screenplay in William Goldman: the playful and the ironic in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride |publisher=Communication & Society |year=2014 |pages=1–15))</ref>

The narrator of ''The Princess Bride'', while named William Goldman, is persona or [[author surrogate]] that mixes fictional elements with some biographical details that match the author's life.<ref name=":0" /> Goldman's personal life, as described in the introduction and commentary in the novel, is fictional.<ref name=":0" /> In ''The Princess Bride'', Goldman claimed to have one son with his wife, Helen, a psychiatrist. In reality, Goldman married Ilene Jones, a photographer, in 1961.<ref name=":1">((Cite journal |date=September 29, 2005 |title=William Goldman |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1618003076/UHIC?u=slclpowersearch&sid=UHIC&xid=68017768 |journal=Newsmakers |access-date=November 2, 2019 |via=Gale in Context: U.S. History))</ref> They had two daughters named Jenny and Susanna, and they divorced in 1991.<ref name=":1" /> Goldman's commentary contains references to his real-life Hollywood career, including the observation that the famous cliff scene in ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]'' was likely inspired by the Cliffs of Insanity from ''The Princess Bride''. While Goldman did write the screenplay for ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' in 1969,<ref name=":1" /> it is unclear if all the career references have a basis in truth. The commentary is extensive, continuing through the text until the end.

The book's actual roots are in stories Goldman told to his daughters (aged 7 and 4),<ref>((Cite news |date=September 25, 2017 |title=15 Inconceivable Facts About ''The Princess Bride'' |language=en |url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/62073/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-princess-bride |access-date=December 29, 2017))</ref> one of whom had requested a story about "princesses" and the other "brides".((Sfn | Andersen | 1979 | p = 83)) Goldman describes the earliest character names from the "kid's saga" as "silly names: Buttercup, Humperdinck".<ref>((Cite book |last=Goldman |first=William |title=[[Which Lie Did I Tell?]]: More Adventures in the Screen Trade |publisher=[[Vintage Books|Vintage]] |year=2001 |isbn=0-375-40349-3 |page=22 |author-link=William Goldman |orig-year=2000))</ref> The novel is often considered a parody of adventure stories, but Goldman never intended to write it that way. He simply wanted to write a fun fairy tale for his daughters.<ref name=":2" /> The themes of romance, escape, and revenge also play into the idea that this book could be a parody.<ref name=":2" /> The countries are both named after coins. The florin was originally an [[Florin (Italian coin)|Italian gold coin]] minted in [[Florence]], and later the name of various currencies and denominations. The [[guilder]] was originally a [[Dutch Guilder|Dutch gold coin]], and later the name of various currencies used mainly in the Netherlands and its territories. The two names are often interchangeable.

Goldman said he wrote the first chapter about Buttercup which ran for about 20 pages. Then, he wrote the second chapter, "The Groom", about the man she was going to marry; Goldman only managed to write four pages before running dry. Then he got the idea to write an abridged novel:
((Blockquote|And when that idea hit, everything changed. [[Tennessee Williams]] says there are three or four days when you are writing a play that the piece opens itself to you, and the good parts of the play are all from those days. Well, ''The Princess Bride'' opened itself to me. I never had a writing experience like it. I went back and wrote the chapter about Bill Goldman being at the Beverly Hills Hotel and it all just came out. I never felt as strongly connected emotionally to any writing of mine in my life. It was totally new and satisfying and it came as such a contrast to the world I had been doing in the films that I wanted to be a novelist again.<ref>Goldman quoted in ((Harvnb | Andersen | 1979 | p = 83))</ref>))

Goldman said he was particularly moved writing the scene in which Westley dies.((Sfn | Andersen | 1979 | p = 82)) 

===Reunion scene===
In the novel's commentary, Goldman writes that he added nothing to the "original" Morgenstern text. He did write one original scene, a loving reunion between Buttercup and Westley, but, he said, his publisher objected to this addition.<ref name="spark">((Cite web |title=The Princess Bride, Chapter Five Summary |url=http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/princessbride/section4.rhtml |access-date=October 27, 2007 |publisher=Spark Notes))</ref> He invites any reader who wants to read the "Reunion Scene" to write to the publisher (formerly Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; now Random House) and request a copy. Many readers wrote in to the publisher and did receive a letter, but instead of an extra scene, the letter detailed the (obviously fictitious) legal problems that Goldman and his publishers encountered with the Morgenstern estate and its lawyer, Kermit Shog. This letter was revised and updated periodically; the 1987 revision mentioned the [[The Princess Bride (film)|movie]], while the 25th Anniversary Edition published the letter with an addendum about Kermit's lawyer granddaughter Carly. The 30th Anniversary Edition has a footnote that the three pages of the reunion scene were now available online.<ref>((Citation |title=Princess bride |url=http://www.harcourtbooks.com/princessbride/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023040748/http://www.harcourtbooks.com/princessbride/ |publisher=Harcourt |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |url-status=dead)).</ref> However, the website itself contained nothing but the text of the original three letters. This website has since been taken down and superseded by the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt product page for the book, which provides the 2003 version of the Reunion Scene letter as a digital download.<ref>((Cite web |title=The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure ((!)) HMH Books |url=https://www.hmhbooks.com/products/The-Princess-Bride-Deluxe-Edition-HC/9781328948854 |access-date=July 23, 2019 |website=www.hmhbooks.com |language=en ))((Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref>

== ''Buttercup's Baby'' ==
The epilogue to some later editions of the novel, notably the 25th anniversary edition, mentions a sequel, ''Buttercup's Baby'', that was "having trouble getting published because of legal difficulties with S. Morgenstern's estate".  Later editions actually reprint Goldman's "sample chapter".<ref name="chapter">((Cite book |last=Goldman |first=William |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780345418265/page/345 |title=The Princess Bride |date=December 1998 |publisher=[[Ballantine Books]] |isbn=0-345-41826-3 |edition=25th Anniversary |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780345418265/page/345 345–399] |chapter=Buttercup's Baby |author-link=William Goldman |url-access=registration))</ref>

The chapter consists of a disjointed assemblage of stories about the quartet's escape to "One Tree Island", and the eventual kidnapping of Waverly (Westley and Buttercup's daughter) by a skinless-faced "madman" who eventually throws her off a mountainside. The chapter ends with Fezzik, Waverly's appointed babysitter, leaping off the mountain to save her, and then cradling her to preserve her from the impact that seems certain to spell at least Fezzik's doom. Also noteworthy is a [[Flashback (narrative)|flashback]] to Inigo's past, his training as a swordsman, and his one-time romantic love interest.

The chapter also continues the author's extensive footnotes after he is outraged to learn that the fiercely protective Morgenstern estate had finally relented to an abridgment of ''Buttercup's Baby'' done not by Goldman but by author [[Stephen King]]. The footnotes detail Goldman's visit to the fictional nation of Florin, which houses a popular museum devoted to the "real" story of ''The Princess Bride'' and contains such artifacts as Inigo's six-fingered sword.

The 30th anniversary edition of ''The Princess Bride'' included hints to the sequel's plot, and a promise to have the full version completed before a 50th anniversary edition (2023).

In a January 2007 interview, Goldman admitted he was having difficulty coming up with ideas for the story:<ref name="interview">((Cite web |last=Piehler |first=Christopher |year=2007 |title=William Goldman, The Storyteller's Story |url=http://www.movingpicturesmagazine.com/Personalities/tabid/58/entryid/1507/William-Goldman-The-Storyteller-s-Story.aspx |access-date=October 27, 2007 |work=Moving Pictures Magazine))((dead link | date=June 2012))</ref>
((Blockquote | '''MPM:''' I hear you're working on a sequel to ''The Princess Bride'' called ''Buttercup's Baby''.

'''William Goldman:''' I desperately want to write it, and I sit there and nothing happens and I get pissed at myself. I got lucky with ''The Princess Bride'' the first time, and I'd love to get lucky again.<ref name="interview" />))

Goldman died in 2018 without completing the sequel.

== Adaptations ==
In 1982 [[Ray Harryhausen]] was approached by British producer [[Milton Subotsky]], who had written a script based on the novel. Harryhausen liked the book but found too many problems with the screenplay. He and Subotsky worked together in an attempt to create a new script, but eventually gave up.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3397881/5-unmade-ray-harryhausen-films-wish-existed/|title=5 Unmade Ray Harryhausen Films We Wish Existed|first=Chris|last=Webster|date=July 8, 2016))</ref>

The book was adapted into [[The Princess Bride (film)|a 1987 feature film]] directed by [[Rob Reiner]] from a screenplay written by Goldman himself.

Goldman partnered with [[Adam Guettel]] to create a musical version of the story with Goldman writing the book and Guettel writing the music, but the two parted ways on the project when Goldman demanded 75% of the author's royalties, though Guettel was writing both the music and the lyrics.<ref>((Cite web |title=Goldman and Guettel Part Ways on Princess Bride Musical |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/105825-Goldman-and-Guettel-Part-Ways-on-Princess-Bride-Musical |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110402061139/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/105825-Goldman-and-Guettel-Part-Ways-on-Princess-Bride-Musical |archive-date=April 2, 2011 |access-date=August 5, 2010 |publisher=Playbill))</ref> Guettel's score was nearly complete, but it is unlikely to be heard beyond an orchestral suite performed at the Hollywood Bowl in 2006.

In November 2013, [[Disney Theatrical]] announced that it will be staging a new stage musical version, based on the novel and film screenplay.<ref>((Cite web |date=November 11, 2013 |title=Breaking News: As WE Wish! Disney to Develop THE PRINCESS BRIDE for the Stage! |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-As-WE-Wish-Disney-to-Develop-THE-PRINCESS-BRIDE-for-the-Stage-20131111 |access-date=November 12, 2013 |publisher=Broadwayworld.com))</ref>

In 2008, [[Toy Vault, Inc.]] announced it was working on a ''Princess Bride''–based card game due for release in the second quarter of 2008. It also announced that it is working on a board game, the second ever produced for this movie, after a simple board game included with some VHS releases.

Also in 2008, the production company [[Worldwide Biggies]] released a computer game, ''[[The Princess Bride Game]]''. Several actors from the movie provided voices for their video game counterparts, including [[Mandy Patinkin]] as Inigo Montoya, [[Wallace Shawn]] as Vizzini, and [[Robin Wright]] as Buttercup.<ref>((Cite web |last=McElroy |first=Justin |date=September 11, 2008 |title=Inconceivable! How The Princess Bride became a game |url=https://www.gamezebo.com/news/inconceivable-how-the-princess-bride-became-a-game/ |access-date=December 12, 2008 |publisher=[[Gamezebo]] |archive-date=September 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914002832/http://www.gamezebo.com/features/special-editorials/inconceivable-how-princess-bride-became-game))</ref>

[[Sierra Online]] parodied the title of the novel in their computer game ''[[King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride]]''.

In 2014, [[Game Salute]] licensed the tabletop game adaptation publishing rights to the Princess Bride; a series of board and card games were released later that year.<ref>((Cite web |title=Game Salute Announces The Princess Bride Board Games |url=http://gamesalute.com/princess-bride-announcement/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912150735/http://gamesalute.com/princess-bride-announcement/ |archive-date=September 12, 2013 |website=gamesalute.com |publisher=Game Salute))</ref>

In 2019, [[Toy Vault]] produced a [[Role-playing game|Role Playing Game]] written by [[Steffan O'Sullivan]].<ref>((Cite web |title=Princess Bride RPG ((!))((!)) By ToyVault |url=http://www.toyvault.com/PrincessBrideRPG.html |access-date=August 29, 2019 |website=www.toyvault.com |archive-date=July 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726212205/http://www.toyvault.com/PrincessBrideRPG.html |url-status=dead ))</ref>

On September 13, 2020, the surviving members of the original cast participated in a live script reading that was a fundraiser for the [[Democratic Party of Wisconsin|Wisconsin Democratic Party]].<ref>((Cite web |date=2020-09-10 |title=Cast of 'The Princess Bride' reuniting for script reading to support Wisconsin Democrats ((!)) Local Government ((!)) madison.com |url=https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/cast-of-the-princess-bride-reuniting-for-script-reading-to-support-wisconsin-democrats/article_bf7a04a1-a0d7-5ba0-ab76-3da31375f709.html |access-date=2023-03-20 |archive-date=September 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910041624/https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/cast-of-the-princess-bride-reuniting-for-script-reading-to-support-wisconsin-democrats/article_bf7a04a1-a0d7-5ba0-ab76-3da31375f709.html |url-status=bot: unknown ))</ref>

In 2021, [[BBC Radio 4]] produced a two-part radio adaptation by Stephen Keyworth (referred to as "The Best Bits of the Good Parts Version"), with the first part broadcast on Christmas Day 2021 and the second on New Year's Day 2022.<ref>((Cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001320k | title=BBC Radio 4 - the Princess Bride, the Dramatisation: Part 2 ))</ref> During the week of 26 December 2021, five mini-episodes, "Bitesize Backstories", dealing with the backstories of the book itself and four of the main characters "which can be enjoyed as stand-alone stories or to enhance [the listener's] experience of the drama", were also broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

== See also ==
* [[Ruritanian romance]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ((Citation |last=Andersen |first=Richard |title=William Goldman |year=1979 |publisher=Twayne)).

== External links ==
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* ((Citation |last=Goldman |first=William |title=The Princess Bride |year=2007 |publisher=Harcourt |isbn=9780156035217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HWMD4dsbRnMC |edition=30th Anniversary |format=[[Google Books]])).

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