William Goldman’s wonderful The Princess Bride, also referenced, is clearly King’s model, but although he strives for the same mixture of genuine excitement and self-referential larkiness (ruminating ...

The series that looks at books, plays and stories and how they work. John Yorke unpeels the metafictional layers of William Goldman’s fairytale for adults. Show more According to its introduction, The ...

According to its introduction, The Princess Bride is a long, sprawling book by the great Florinese writer S. Morgenstern that renowned screenwriter and novelist William Goldman has been obliged to ...