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The Neverending Story
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The Neverending Story Hardcover - 1997

by Michael Ende; Ralph Manheim (Translator)

When it was published more than a decade ago, this special story within a story captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers worldwide. A lonely boy named Bastian is drawn into a beautiful but doomed world. Only Bastian can save this enchanted place of dragons, giants, monsters, and mysteries . . . but will he have to stay there forever? This beautifully repackaged hardcover classic will lure even more readers into its wondrous world.


About this book

The Neverending Story is a German fantasy novel by Michael Ende, first published in 1979 under the title Die unendliche Geschichte. The standard English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was first published in 1983. The novel was later adapted into several films. The majority of the story takes place in the parallel world of Fantastica (Phantásien in the original German version; referred to as Fantasia in the films), a world being destroyed by the Nothing, which represents and constitutes people's lack of imagination in the real world. The first protagonist is a young warrior, who is asked by the sick Empress to set off and find the cure for their world. The other protagonist is a boy from the real world, a reader of the novel with the same title, for whom the story gradually becomes more and more realistic. -

From the publisher

Read the book that inspired the classic coming-of-age film before it's back onscreen in select theaters this September! From award-winning German author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life. When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica--so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he is the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica?
"An instantaneous leap into the magical . . . Energetic, innovative, and perceptive"--The Washington Post

"A trumpet blast for the imagination."--Sunday Times

First Edition Identification

The true first edition was published by K. Thienemanns Verlag in 1979. The first English-language editions were published simultaneously in New York and London by Doubleday and Allen Lane, respectively.

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  • Title The Neverending Story
  • Author Michael Ende; Ralph Manheim (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dutton Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780525457589 / 0525457585
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 13 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 8
  • Reading level 930
  • Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Good and evil
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96049342
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1997, Page 70

About the author

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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