title: The Princess Bride (Fox): S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
author:  William Goldman 
description: <P>WILLIAMGOLDMANhas been writing books and movies for more than forty years. He has won two Academy Awards (for <EM>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</EM> and <EM>All the President's Men</EM>), and three Lifetime Achievement Awards in screenwriting.
zlib_text: THE PRINCESS BRIDE
  
   **S. Morgenstern’s**  
   **Classic Tale of True Love**  
   **and High Adventure**
  
    
    
    
  
   **The ‘good parts’ version abridged by**
  
   **WILLIAM GOLDMAN**
  
    
  
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  CONTENTS
  
  One - THE BRIDE
  
  Two - THE GROOM
  
  Three - THE COURTSHIP
  
  Four - THE PREPARATIONS
  
  Five - THE ANNOUNCEMENT
  
  Six - THE FESTIVITIES
  
  Seven - THE WEDDING
  
  Eight - HONEYMOON
  
    
  
  For Hiram Haydn
  
    
    
  
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  ![](Images/image00164.jpeg)
  
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  THE PRINCESS BRIDE
  
    
    
  
  This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
  
  How is such a thing possible? I’ll do my best to explain. As a child, I had
  simply no interest in books. I hated reading, I was very bad at it, and
  besides, how could you take the time to read when there were games that
  shrieked for playing? Basketball, baseball, marbles—I could never get enough.
  I wasn’t even good at them, but give me a football and an empty playground and
  I could invent last-second tr