Original music inspired by William Goldman’s The Princess Bride

Inconceivable? Hardly. The Princess Bride takes the tired damsel-in-distress narrative, flips it, parodies it, and sets it galloping off on an endlessly quotable mission of revenge. William Goldman’s classic satire gleefully dismantles the fantasy genre, only to rebuild it with sharper jokes, deeper feelings, and the best revenge speech in literature. And yes, there’s kissing. Get over it. Anybody want a peanut?

“[Goldman’s] swashbuckling fable is nutball funny . . . A ‘classic’ medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers.”—Newsweek

“One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time.”—Los Angeles Times

Heads up: The Princess Bride contains scenes of weird torture, violence and cruelty, kidnapping, and medieval-brand sexism and fatphobia. (Does the Dog Die)