![]() Having fallen in love with the story via the Hollywood film, they were now looking for the ur-text. “A novel that comments on its own status as a text.” When the customer had left, my colleague told me that a lot of people still believe there is an original version of the novel available somewhere, written by Morgenstern. “It’s metafiction,” my colleague explained. Goldman made him up.” The customer wasn’t convinced. The first time this happened, a younger colleague who had worked there longer than I had told my customer, “ The Princess Bride was written by William Goldman. Every few months, someone would come into the store and ask if we had an unabridged edition of S. ![]() ![]() In the 1990s, I worked at a Tower Books store in Sacramento. Yes, all that text actually appeared on the cover of the book’s first hardcover edition (all but the first three words have been scrubbed from the covers of most subsequent editions). Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, The “Good Parts” Version. Unlike Rob Reiner’s much-loved 1987 film adaptation, the book’s full title is The Princess Bride: S. In a bizarre introduction (more about which in a moment), Goldman claims merely to have acted as editor. ![]() The book purports to be an abridged edition of a classic adventure story written by someone named Simon Morgenstern. Even by the eccentric standards of fantasy literature, William Goldman’s 1973 novel The Princess Bride is extremely odd. ![]()
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