“Who can know when his world is going to change?” asks the narrator, discussing his “favorite book in all the world,” which is, of course, his world-changer. William Goldman’s The Princess Bride is a fake abridgement of a novel; as the abridger, also named William Goldman, explains, his father read it to him despite his being a book-averse 10-year-old. When the narrator recalls asking his father if The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure has any sports in it, this is how his father describes the novel’s contents:
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