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William Goldman’s thrilling and timeless fantasy classic of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers comes to life in this beautifully illustrated Deluxe Edition. With a gorgeous foil stamped cover, designed endpapers featuring a map of Florin and Guilder, and deckle-edge paper, it's the perfect gift book for fans of the beloved book or the cult classic film.A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment ...

This adventure story has everything you could want: a handsome good guy, a pretty heroine, some bad guys, sword fighting, revenge, romance, and of course a happy ending, along with "rodents of unusual size." Join Westley (the plucky farm boy), Buttercup (the beautiful young maiden), Inigo Montoya (the driven, embittered swordsman), Prince Humperdinck (the scheming villain), and many other strange and unusual characters in this swashbuckling tale of good-natured silliness. Read by Rob Reine...

Enter Hollywood's inner sanctums in this gossipy and honest book by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of The Princess Bride .A National Bestseller—Named One of the Top one hundred Film Books of All Time by The Hollywood ReporterNo one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter...

From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of All the President's Men, The Princess Bride, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, here is essential reading for both the aspiring screenwriter and anyone who loves going to the movies.If you want to know why a no-name like Kathy Bates was cast in Misery, it's in here. Or why Linda Hunt's brilliant work in Maverick didn't make the final cut, William Goldman gives you the straight ...

A Nazi conspiracy in the heart of modern-day Manhattan: the blockbuster New York Times bestseller that became the classic film thriller is "one hell of a read" ( The Washington Post ).At Columbia University, Thomas "Babe" Levy, a postgrad history student and aspiring marathon runner, is working to clear his late father's name after the scandal of his suicide, triggered by the Mc...

“One of those can’t-put-it-down-until-the-last-page-is-turned monsters that has readers all over the country missing sleep.”—Minneapolis TribuneCorky is a brilliant entertainer with a bright future ahead of him. He has good looks, many women, and enormous talent. He also had a secret and a certainty: a secret that must be hidden from his public at all costs; and a certainty that the dark forces of magic were out to destroy him.**“Fascinating . . . ...

Details the terrifying course of events that occurs as, one by one, suddenly and inexplicably, happy, successful, and apparently normal people lose control

An "extraordinary" novel of five friends coming of age in 1960s New York City, from a New York Times–bestselling, Academy Award–winning author ( The Plain Dealer).William Goldman, the versatile author who gave us classic thrillers like Marathon Man, the immortal comedy of The Princess Bride, and the infamous Hollywood tell-all Adventures in the Screen Trade, offers a beautiful and sweeping novel inspired by his own coming...

The New York Times–bestselling author's phenomenal debut novel about growing up in midwestern, midcentury America.Raymond Euripides Trevitt grows up virtually alone in the small town of Athens, Illinois, until a new boy moves in next door. His name is Zachary Crowe, but he goes by Zock. They're as different as two midwestern boys can be, but their friendship will go on to shape—if not define—both of their lives.In the early days, Ray takes Zock hiki...

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.Drinking pals back in their youth, now married and with grown up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he needs to tell Davy, and Davy has a sorrow he wants to ...

**A dazzling, racy, and exuberant debut--Amanda Boyden tells the story of two Midwestern girls of privilege in the late 70s and early 80s and their shared plunge from innocence."Pretty Little Dirty takes a classic coming-of-age tale and turns it inside out, then gives it a few kicks in the head for good measure. Funny, sexy, inventively told, and scary as hell—a gutsy debut."–Dani Shapiro, author of Family History**Lisa sees the life of her gorgeous best f...