Questions tagged [william-goldman]
Questions about the works of William Goldman (1931-2018) or his life as a writer.
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What is The Princess Bride's "reunion scene" that you had to write to the publisher for?
In The Princess Bride by William Goldman, there is an extended section where the author says that he wanted to include a reunion scene when Buttercup first discovers that the "man in black" is in fact ...
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How much of the sequel to the Princess Bride was written?
As mentioned on Wikipedia, in some later editions of The Princess Bride, the first chapter of Buttercup's Baby, which Goldman said was a sequel, appears at the end. A sequel was never realized, and ...
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To what effect does Goldman claim The Princess Bride is an abridgement?
This question was inspired by this question, which asks about the history of one work claiming itself as an adaptation or abridgment of another. In The Princess Bride by William Goldman, the author ...
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Was pretending to be an abridgement of a made-up work invented by William Goldman?
William Goldman's The Princess Bride is famous (among other reasons) for a literary device it employs - it pretends to be an abridgment (or "the good parts version") of a longer work by S. ...
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