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The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, the “Good Parts” Version
William Goldman presents a comic adventure about Buttercup, Westley, and the ruthless Prince Humperdinck—but disguises it as his abridgment of an older novel by the invented S. Morgenstern. The romance unfolds through abduction, swordplay, revenge, deception, torture, and unlikely alliances. Around that tale, a fictionalized Goldman interrupts to explain what he has supposedly removed and why the story mattered to him as a child. The result is both an absorbing fairy-tale adventure and a playful examination of how stories are selected, reshaped, remembered, and passed between generations. Its wit does not cancel its emotional stakes: loyalty, grief, courage, and the difficult survival of love remain central.