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The Princess Bride

Book Review by: annycat    

Original Author: William Goldman
This abstract was translated from Die Brautprinzessin
The first chapter is about a girl, whose name is Buttercup. She is a farmer´s daughter and very beautiful. Buttercup loves
Westley. He is the Farm Boy on her father´s farm and he loves Buttercup, too.
One day Westley leaves the farm, he leaves Buttercup, but only to go to America to make his fortune. He plans to get her over when he has enough money.
But his ship is attacked by pirates and there are rumors that nobody has survived. Buttercup is very sad about Westley´s death and she swears that she will never love again. And so she does.
The second chapter is about a really different person: Prince Humperdinck. He is the Prince of Florin and an enthusiastic hunter. But now his father, the King of Florin, is dying and Prince Humperdinck needs a woman. He decides to marry the most beautiful woman in the world: Buttercup, although she is only a farmer´s daughter. Buttercup agrees more or less voluntarily and spends the next 3 years to learn how to be a princess.                      
When it is only half a year until the marriage, Buttercup is kidnapped by a Sicilian, a Spaniard and a Turk. The three speak openly about killing her and she is very frightened. But then she is rescued by a man. And the man turns out to be Westley who has survived the attack of the pirates.
 Now Buttercup and Westley want to flee, but Prince Humperdinck catches them and takes them both to his castle: Buttercup as his bride and Westley as his prisoner, which Buttercup doesn´t know.
 Later, one day before the marriage of Humperdinck and Buttercup, Humperdinck kills Westley after months of torture. At this point the Spaniard and the Turk return to the story because they want to help.
Can they help? I don´t tell you but I tell you something else: you must be very stupid then you don´t read this book because nowhere in the world you can find a better.     
Published: August 26, 2007
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