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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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For Hiram Haydn




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 triumphs that would bring tears to your
eyes. School was torture. Miss Roginski, who was my teacher for the third through fifth
grades, would have meeting after meeting with my mother. "I don't feel Billy is perhaps
extending himself quite as much as he might." Or, "When we test him, Billy does really
exceptionally well, considering his class standing." Or, most often, "I don't know, Mrs.
Goldman; what are we going to do about Billy?"
What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first
ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was
passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all
games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for
all my frenzy, I was very much alone.
"What are we going to do about you, Billy?"