She expresses her unhappiness to Humperdinck, who proposes a deal wherein he will send out four ships to locate Westley, but if they fail, Buttercup will marry him. Rugen, who has no intention of releasing Westley, instead takes him to the underground hunting arena called the 'Zoo of Death', where he is tortured.īuttercup later has several nightmares regarding her marriage to the prince. Buttercup negotiates for Westley's release and returns with Humperdinck to the palace to await their wedding. Westley and Buttercup travel through the feared Fire Swamp to evade Humperdinck's party, but upon exiting, they are captured by Humperdinck and his menacing six-fingered vizier Count Tyrone Rugen.
Eventually, Roberts secretly passed his name, captaincy, and ship to Westley. Westley thereafter became his apprentice, learning to sail, fence, and fight. She realizes that he is Westley, who tells her that the Dread Pirate Roberts did attack his ship, but kept Westley alive after hearing of the depths of his love for Buttercup. Enraged, she shoves him into a gorge, yelling "You can die, too, for all I care!" only to hear him call, "As you wish!". With Prince Humperdinck's rescue party in hot pursuit, the man in black flees with Buttercup, and reveals that he is the Dread Pirate Roberts, Westley's murderer. Vizzini is tricked into drinking poison, and subsequently dies. The man in black catches up with Vizzini, who is holding Buttercup hostage, and proposes a battle of wits. The man in black then chokes Fezzik until the giant blacks out. Fezzik, moved by his conscience throws a rock as a warning, and challenges the man in black to a wrestling match. Vizzini, stunned, orders Fezzik to kill the man in black. The man in black wins their duel, but leaves the Spaniard alive. Inigo arranges a fair fight, allowing his opponent to rest before the duel, during which Inigo reveals that he is seeking revenge on a six-fingered man who killed his father. A masked man in black follows them across the sea and up the Cliffs of Insanity, whereupon Vizzini orders Inigo to stop him. Believing Westley to be dead, Buttercup reluctantly is engaged to Prince Humperdinck, heir to the throne of Florin.īefore the wedding, Buttercup is kidnapped by a trio of outlaws: the Sicilian criminal genius Vizzini, the Spanish fencing master Inigo Montoya, and the enormous and mighty Turkish wrestler Fezzik. Buttercup later receives word that his ship was attacked at sea by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is notorious for killing all those whom he boards. After Buttercup realizes the true meaning of the words, as well as the fact that she returns his love, Westley leaves to seek his fortune so they can marry. Westley's only answer is "As you wish", which represents his great affection for her. She delights in verbally abusing the farm hand Westley by demanding that he perform chores for her. In a Renaissance-era fairy-tale world, a beautiful woman named Buttercup lives on a farm in the fictional country of Florin.
It was made into a feature film in 1987 by Rob Reiner, and an attempt to adapt it into a musical was made by Adam Guettel. It combines elements of comedy, adventure, romance and fairy tale. It was originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The Princess Bride is a 1973 novel written by William Goldman and presented as if it were an abridgment of a work by S. The first edition features red text for the abridgement notes, as does the first mass-market paperback edition (Ballantine, 1974) later paperbacks used italics instead, with the sentence "All abridging remarks and other comments will be in red so you'll know" correspondingly altered.
The regular hardcover version had the same image and colors, except for the brown border which is the fabric that surrounds the cardboard of the case. This is the slipcase cover of the deluxe first edition of The Princess Bride. For other uses, see The Princess Bride (disambiguation).
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