- Hardcover: 396 pages
- Publisher: E P Dutton & Co Inc (27 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0525457585
- ISBN-13: 978-0525457589
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 474,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An instantaneous leap into the magical ... Energetic, innovative, and perceptive"
--The Washington Post
"A rich, enjoyable read ... Succeeds by drawing in the most potent elements of fairytale, myth, and invented fantasy."
--The Observer
"You might just get in touch with the child in you who clapped her hands for Tinker Bell."
--Glamour
"A trumpet blast for the imagination."
--Sunday Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
--The Washington Post
"A rich, enjoyable read ... Succeeds by drawing in the most potent elements of fairytale, myth, and invented fantasy."
--The Observer
"You might just get in touch with the child in you who clapped her hands for Tinker Bell."
--Glamour
"A trumpet blast for the imagination."
--Sunday Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill.
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LL the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. Read the first page
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book deserves to be a classic. I remember reading it as a child thinking it was the best thing I had ever read. Now as an adult I still find it captivating. It's full of adventure and fantasy, most of all how one small child can make a difference in a world of imagination and dreams where "small" matters. For those of you who have seen the film adaptations and were put off, I would recommend you read the book. It's far better and far more encompassing. Michael Ende is one of those authors who you come across by surprise, enticing you with page after page of really good writing until eventually you wish the book really was neverending.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book is an extraordinary experience, and it definitely is more than a children's book. It encourages the reader to force the limits of imagination, and question the dimensions of relativity. Ende introduces a crisp realm of childhood, blended with a high level of mature awareness of the universe...
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"Die Unendliche Geschichte" - 1997 HARDCOVER RELEASE
Michael Ende's novel first came to my attention after I had seen the wonderful Warner Bros film in 1984. Just a teenager at the time, I sought out the book and read it. It was fantastic, a book I intended to keep for the rest of my life. But it was a yellowing, cheap paperback re-released off the back of the movie. So one day trawling through the catalogues at Amazon, it occurred to me to check out if the book was still in print. It was. And how.
When my copy arrived, I hadn't realised the effort that had been put into its print. The cover art is crisply reproduced with firm hardbacking, but the real surprise was to be found inside; the text is printed in alternating purple (for Bastian's story) and green (for the events within the storybook itself). It's one of those books you want to stick on the shelf and never touch again because you want to preserve its beauty, although well-thumbed books take on an appreciated beauty of their own. I love this book, I would've paid twice the price for it.
Hope you enjoy it as much.
NOTE: Michael Ende's novel is longer than the film, which was based only on the first half of the book. The sequel is not based on the second part. The translation is the original one by Ralph Manheim. For trivialists, Ende died in 1995, Manheim in 1992.
Michael Ende's novel first came to my attention after I had seen the wonderful Warner Bros film in 1984. Just a teenager at the time, I sought out the book and read it. It was fantastic, a book I intended to keep for the rest of my life. But it was a yellowing, cheap paperback re-released off the back of the movie. So one day trawling through the catalogues at Amazon, it occurred to me to check out if the book was still in print. It was. And how.
When my copy arrived, I hadn't realised the effort that had been put into its print. The cover art is crisply reproduced with firm hardbacking, but the real surprise was to be found inside; the text is printed in alternating purple (for Bastian's story) and green (for the events within the storybook itself). It's one of those books you want to stick on the shelf and never touch again because you want to preserve its beauty, although well-thumbed books take on an appreciated beauty of their own. I love this book, I would've paid twice the price for it.
Hope you enjoy it as much.
NOTE: Michael Ende's novel is longer than the film, which was based only on the first half of the book. The sequel is not based on the second part. The translation is the original one by Ralph Manheim. For trivialists, Ende died in 1995, Manheim in 1992.
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Amazing story but too small print
I bought this book for my 9 year old son as he watched the movie and was amazed by the story. I read it myself as a child and I have remembered it ever since. Read more
Published 4 months ago by P. Henriksen
Precious
The first part is like the movie, and I enjoyed, but the second part is totally diferent, some parts more dark, and some like more fantasy, I love it!! Read more
Published 5 months ago by E. V. Maraver
A Little Dissapointing
I thought I was getting a hardback cover, and I wouldn't have ordered it if I thought it was a paperback. I wanted to give it to my boyfriend as a Christmas present. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jenny
Wonderful!
I have always loved the Neverending Story film, ever since I was small. I started getting curious and found out that it was book before it was a movie. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Martin Corley
The NeverEnding Story [book]
I read the book after watching both movies on DVD - The NeverEnding Story and The NeverEnding Story 11. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ms. J. L. Dennis
Outstanding fantasy book for adults and teenagers
Just a fantasy story as an excuse to speak about the human being, his desires and beliefs.
Recommendable for adults or teenagers, not children I would say, as one may need to... Read more
Recommendable for adults or teenagers, not children I would say, as one may need to... Read more
Published 19 months ago by ooohooohoooh
Love it!
Although this is a little long winded(most likely due to the fact that it is translated) this is still a great fanatsy story. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Smashon
NES
Not Nintendo Entertainment System, but the Never Ending Story - another one of Ende's timeless classics!
Published 23 months ago by F. Schubert
Forget the movie
that was good for its time, but this is truly a masterpiece.
If you've never read the book and yuor recollections are only of Limahl's theme to the movie from a 1/4 century... Read more
If you've never read the book and yuor recollections are only of Limahl's theme to the movie from a 1/4 century... Read more
Published on 12 May 2010 by DarkDreamer
glad I bought it!!!
I am so made up i found this book on here :)
I am not really a reader but when I saw a book related to my favourite movie ever I was so made up I knew I just had to have... Read more
I am not really a reader but when I saw a book related to my favourite movie ever I was so made up I knew I just had to have... Read more
Published on 4 April 2010 by Dawn
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