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In a plot against the throne, Buttercup is kidnapped by the criminal trio of Vizzini (the mastermind), Fezzik (the dumb muscle) and Inigo Montoya (the world's greatest fencer, traveling to avenge his father) - but their steps are hampered by a mysterious man in black who seems determined to stop them at all costs. The subsequent adventures are madcap, iconic and brilliant.
The book uses a [[Framing Device]] with the author [[Adaptation Distillation|"abridging"]] an older story in order to turn a very satirical (and rather cynical) adult novel by the Florinese author S. Morgenstern into the adventure tale for children [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|that he remembers his father reading to him as a kid]]. He was so successful with it that over the decades since its publication more than a few fans have searched in vain for the fictional "original version".
It was later adapted by the author into a well-known [[The Princess Bride (film)|film of the same name]].
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* [[The Brute]]: Subverted. Fezzik is really quite a nice guy.
* [[Buy Them Off]]
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** Only in the book: "True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for cough drops." It's repeated multiple times by characters at multiple levels of reality, as if everyone knows this is self-evidently true.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]
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