The Princess Bride
This fantasy story of adventure and true love begins with
Buttercup, a
beautiful farmer’s
daughter. Buttercup loves Westley, a stable
boy, and he loves her too. But he is poor and decides to go to America
to seek his fortune, and send for Buttercup later.
However his ship is besieged by pirates and there are
rumours that no-one has survived. Buttercup is so sad that she swears never to
love again. And she does not.
She does not love the Prince
Humperdinck of Florin, who seeks her hand, however she agrees to the
marriage. For the prince has a problem: his father, the king, is dying, and he,
Prince Humperdinck, needs a
beautiful new queen. And Buttercup is the most
beautiful woman in the world.
However, six months before the wedding Buttercup is abducted
by a Sicilian, a Spaniard, and a Turk. She is rescued from certain death by
none other than Westley, who has survived the pirates’ attack.
Unfortunately Buttercup and Westley’s happiness is short
lived, for the prince finds them and takes both of them to his castle:
Buttercup as his bride and Westley as his prisoner (unknown to Buttercup), and
on the day before the wedding he kills Westley.
It seems as if Buttercup is doomed to a life with the brutal
huntsman Prince Humperdinck, when the Spaniard and the Turk re-enter the story.
This time they mean to help. What happens next is a little crazy, but always thrilling,
surprising, exciting, and above all entirely funny! Will they have a happy
ending? I won’t give it away. But I will tell you this: you’d be silly not to
read this book, because you wouldn’t find a better one in the world!