The Princess Bride

Author:
William Goldman
Illustrator:
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Suitable for ages:
7
to
100
ISBN:
Reviewer:
Fotini Hamplova
Reviewer:
Fotini Hamplová

If you do not know this book, buy it now and read it. After you have done that, watch the film. It is truly funny and wonderful.

This book works on many levels. It has layers of narrative, meta narrative and meta-meta narrative. For this reason it works as a story book for children as young as six, but it is certainly enjoyed by adults. I would read this aloud to younger children focusing on the story - skipping over some of the sections that are more dry ‘scholarly humour’.

This book - as the author decided himself - is a classic. A book for the whole family.

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