William Goldman

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams? As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears. Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere. What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex. In short, it's about everything. This edition include fifty full-page color illustrations by Michael Manomivibul (taken from the 2013 edition and enlarged), full-color chapter openers, and a beautiful color rendition of the map printed on the endpapers.

Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to the fateful question, "Is it safe?"

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams? As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears. Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere. What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex. In short, it's about everything.

No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.

Clássico que deu origem ao filme cult dos anos 1980 e que inspira referências pops até hoje, passando por The Big Bang Theory, Shrek e Gilmore Girls. Buttercup é uma camponesa que se apaixona perdidamente por Westley, o jovem humilde que trabalha na fazenda do pai dela. Juntos, eles descobrem o amor verdadeiro, mas um trágico acidente envolvendo um navio pirata os separa. Em poucos anos, Buttercup se torna a mulher mais bonita de todos os reinos e acaba sendo pedida em casamento pelo sádico príncipe Humperdinck. Mas nada, nem um poderoso príncipe amante da caça, é capaz de separar esse amor, e o destemido Westley volta para resgatar sua princesa que foi prometida a outro. Em uma paródia aos épicos clássicos, William Goldman escreve um divertido romance com direito a tudo que o gênero tem a oferecer: piratas, duelo de esgrima, traições, tramas políticas da realeza e um romance apaixonante. Esta edição de luxo em capa dura traz os textos extras que William Goldman escreveu para as edições comemorativas de 25 e 30 anos da obra original — que misturam ficção e realidade e ajudam a compor o universo emblemático que transformou a obra em um fenômeno.

¿Crees en el amor verdadero? Desde la creación del beso en el año 1642 a. C ha habido cinco grandes besos que han sido catalogados como los más puros, los más intensos, los más apasionados de todos los tiempos. El primer beso entre Buttercup y Westely los superó a todos. Esta es su historia. Más de 100 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. Un clásico imprescindible. Una obra inmortal.

Un celebre sceneggiatore è disperatamente a caccia di una copia del romanzo chiave della propria infanzia. Quel romanzo gli aveva spalancato orizzonti impensati, rivelato uno strumento strepitoso: la lettura. Darebbe un occhio pur di trovarlo, vorrebbe regalarlo al figlio viziato e annoiato, sperando che il prodigio si ripeta. Quando ne agguanta una copia, si rende conto che molti capitoli noiosi erano stati tagliati dalla sapiente lettura ad alta voce del padre. Decide di riscriverlo. Togliere lungaggini e divagazioni. Rendere scintillante la "parte buona". La magia si realizza. Il risultato è straordinario. Si parte da una cotta clamorosa, un amore eterno tra un garzone di stalla e la sua splendida padrona, che sembra naufragare a causa di una disgrazia marittima. C'è poi il di lei fidanzamento con un principe freddo e calcolatore. Poi c'è un rapimento, un lungo inseguimento, molte sfide: il ritmo cresce, l'atmosfera si arroventa. Il trucco della riscrittura arricchito da brillanti "fuori campo" dell'autore - l'incanto di personaggi teneri o diabolici, i dialoghi perfetti, fanno crescere il romanzo a livelli stellari. Disfide, cimenti, odio e veleni, certo. Ma anche vera passione, musica, nostalgia.

The author of "Adventures in the Screen Trade" provides an inside look at the Cannes Film Festivals and the Miss America Pageant from his unique perspective as a judge, offering anecdotes about the judging process

Something odd, if predictable, became of screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), he became a Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his years of exile before he found himself--again--as a valuable writer in Hollywood. Fans of the two-time Oscar-winning writer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men) have anxiously waited for this follow-up since his career serpentined into a variety of big hits and critical bombs in the '80s and '90s. Here Goldman scoops on The Princess Bride (his own favorite), Misery, Maverick, Absolute Power, and others. Goldman's conversational style makes him easy to read for the film novice but meaty enough for the detail-oriented pro. His tendency to ramble into other subjects may be maddening (he suddenly switches from being on set with Eastwood to anecdotes about Newman and Garbo), but we can excuse him because of one fact he is so darn entertaining.Like most sequels, Which Lie follows the structure of the original. Both Goldman books have three stories about his movies, a deconstruction of Hollywood (here the focus is on great movie scenes), and a workshop for screenwriters. (The paperback version of the first book also comes with his full-length screenplay of Butch; his collected works are also worth checking out). This final segment is another gift--a toolbox--for the aspiring screenwriter. Goldman takes newspaper clippings and other ideas and asks the reader to diagnose their cinematic possibilities. Goldman also gives us a new screenplay he's written (The Big A), which is analyzed--with brutal honesty--by other top writers. With its juicy facts and valuable sidebars on what makes good screenwriting, this is another entertaining must-read from the man who coined what has to be the most-quoted adage about movie-business "Nobody knows anything." --Doug Thomas