The Princess Bride is a 1973 fantasy romance novel written by William Goldman. The book combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, romantic love, romance, and fairy tale. It is presented as an abridgment of a longer work by S. Morgenstern, and Goldman’s "commentary" asides are constant throughout. It was originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace then later by Random House, while in the United Kingdom it was later published by Bloomsbury. The film was adapted into a 1987 feature film, whose screenplay was written by Goldman himself, and which was directed by Rob Reiner. Adam Guettel attempted to adapt it into a musical. William Goldman said "I've gotten more responses on The Princess Bride than on everything else I’ve done put together—all kinds of strange outpouring letters. Something in The Princess Bride affects people." In 2015 a collection of essays on the novel and the film adaptation was published entitled The Princess Bride and Philosophy. In a Renaissance-era world a beautiful young …show more content…
Buttercup decides to commit suicide when she reaches the honeymoon suite. Inigo pursues Rugen through the castle, and, reciting aloud his long-rehearsed oath of vengeance throughout the duel, kills him in a sword fight. Westley reaches Buttercup before she commits suicide. Still partially paralyzed, he bluffs his way out of a sword fight with Humperdinck, who shows himself to be a coward. Instead of killing his rival, Westley decides to leave him alive for a long, miserable life with his obvious cowardice as his only companion. The party then rides off into the sunset on four of the prince's purebred white horses which Fezzik had conveniently discovered. The story ends with a series of mishaps and the prince's men closing in, but the author indicates that he believes that the group got