The Neverending Story
$36.74
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
26 July 1984
Summary
From award-winning author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life.
Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o’-the-wisps—the inhabitants of an enchanted world. And into this world—through the pages of an old book—ventures Bastian, a lonely boy of ten or twelve. But Fantastica is slowly decaying, its Childlike Empress dying. Only a real human being can set things right by giving the Empress a new name.
Bastian …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140074314 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140074317 |
| Author: | Michael Ende |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 July 1984 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“An instantaneous leap into the magical
“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
About The Author
Michael Ende
Michael Ende was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 1929. After attending drama school from 1948 to 1950, he worked variously as an actor, a writer of sketches and plays, a director of the Volkstheater in Munich, and a film critic for the Bavarian broadcasting company. His first novel for children, Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver, was published in Germany in 1960 to great popular and critical acclaim, and both radio and televsion series based on the Jim Knopf books were soon produced. In 1973 he published another award-winning children’s novel, Momo. When The Neverending Story was first published in Germany in 1979 it immediately became the number-one bestseller arnd remained in that position for three years. It has since been published in many different languages all over the world, including Japanese, and has enchanted readers in each country in which it has appeared.
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