Once upon a time came a story so full of high adventure and true love that it became an instant classic and won the hearts of millions. Now in hardcover in America for the first time since 1973,this special edition of The Princess Bride is a true keepsake for devoted fans as well as those lucky enough to discover it for the first time. What reader can forget such colorful charachters as Wesley...handsome farmboy who risks death and much,much worse for the woman he loves:Inigo...the Spanish swordsman who lives only to avenge his father's death;Fezzik...the Turk,the gentlest giant ever to have uprooted a tree with his bare hands: Vizzini...the evil Sicilian,with a mind so keen he's foiled by his own perfect logic;Prince Humperdinck ...the evil ruler of Guilder, who has and equally insatiable thirst for war and the beauteous Buttercup:The Dread Pirate Roberts ...supreme looter and plunderer of the high seas;and of course Buttercup...the princess bride,the most perfect,the most beautiful woman in the history of the world.