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It's one of the greatest love/action/revenge stories ever abridged by a modern author. Don't bother with the rest of this review, you'll thank me later. If you haven't read this book, then all I can tell you is to go out, get it, and read it. Goldman died in New York City on November 16, 2018, due to complications from colon cancer and pneumonia. He 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. Goldman 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 then adapted his novel The Princess Bride to the screen, which marked his re-entry into screenwriting. 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'). Several of his novels he later used as the foundation for his screenplays. William Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays. Foiling all their plans and jumping into their stories is Westley, Princess Buttercup's one true love and a very good friend of a very dangerous pirate.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 James Goldman, author and playwright. In the course of this dazzling adventure, she'll meet Vizzini-the criminal philosopher who'll 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. Here William Goldman's beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers finally receives a beautiful illustrated treatment.Ī tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts-Īs 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.

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