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Summary Of The Novel 'The Princess Bride'

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I read the novel The Princess Bride by William Goldman. The Princess Bride took place in the country of Florin. Buttercup, the princess bride, is considered as the most beautiful woman in the world. Buttercup wasn’t concerned about her image until she began to fall in love with a farm boy, Westley. Westley is Buttercup's family’s worker. He is a fearless man who ends up getting “killed” by the Dread Pirate Roberts, searching for fortune in America but it is later conceived that he was dressed up as the Man in Black and returns to save Buttercup from danger. Prince Humperdinck is the heir of the Florin kingdom who forces Buttercup to marry him in order to continue his family’s royal lineage. He hires Vizzini, or the Sicilian, to kidnap and murder

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