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  • Published: 26 July 1984
  • ISBN: 9780140074314
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $35.00

The Neverending Story





A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime

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 takes up the challenge, and finds himself crossing the Swamps of Sadness and the Silver Mountains, meeting sorcerers and giants, bats and night-hobs, gnomes and racing snails, as he journeys bravely toward the Ivory Tower, Bastian’s quest is filled with all the wonders of myth and fairy tale. It is a fantasy adventure that will capture your heart – and recapture the magical dreams of childhood.

  • Published: 26 July 1984
  • ISBN: 9780140074314
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $35.00

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About the author

Michael Ende

Michael Ende (1929-1995) was post-war Germany's most successful writer of children's books. His father was a surrealist painter banned by the Nazi regime. Michael worked as an actor, film reviewer and political sketch writer and his first children's book was published in 1960. He was criticised for filling children's heads with escapist, fantasy stories instead of confronting them with the social realism that was believed in at the time. The attacks hurt him and he moved to Rome to live in 1971.

He wrote 30 books, not all were translated into English. His most successful titles in the UK are Momo and The Neverending Story, both of which were made into successful films.

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