Neverending Story

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Author(s):

Michael Ende

First Pub:

1979

Genre(s):

Fantasy; Young Adult

First Read:

2017

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Subject(s):

Fantasy

Chapters:

See 27

Prologue

1 - Fantastica in Danger

2 - Atreyu's Mission

3 - Morla the Aged One

4 - Ygramul the Many

5 - The Gnomics

6 - The Three Magic Gates

7 - The Voice of Silence

8 - The Wind Giants

9 - Spook City

10 - The Flight to the Ivory Tower

11 - The Childlike Empress

12 - The Old Man of Wandering Mountain

13 - Perilin, The Talking Forest

14 - The Desert of Colors

15 - Grograman, the Many-Colored Death

16 - The Silver City of Amarganth

17 - A Dragon for Hero Hynreck

18 - The Acharis

19 - The Traveling Companions

20 - The Seeing Hand

21 - The Star Cloister

22 - The Battle for the Ivory Tower

23 - The City of the Old Emperors

24 - Dame Eyola

25 - The Picture Mine

26 - The Water of Life

Internal ID:

2199

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

The inscription could be seen on the glass door of a small shop, but naturally this was only the way it looked if you were inside the dimly lit shop, looking out at the the street through the plateglass door.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

But that's another story and shall be told another time.

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

First published in Germany as Die Unendliche Geschichte by K. Theinemanns Verlag, 1979

Second half of this story drags. A lot.

Extract not on file

Added: 01-Nov-2018

Last Updated: 07-Apr-2023

01-Jan-2005

Firebird

Trade Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-2005

Format:

Trade Paperback

Cover Price:

$7.99

Pages*:

445

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 12 Oct 2017 - 6 Dec 2017

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

13128

Publisher:

Firebird

ISBN:

0-140-38633-5

ISBN-13:

978-0-140-38633-2

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Dan Craig - Cover Artist

The classic talc
of Bastian and the book that
magically comes to life

Bastian Balthazar Bux is shy, awkward, and certainly not heroic. His only escape is reading books. 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 has been the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica?

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First published in Germany as Die Unendliche Geschichte by K. Theinemanns Verlag, 1979
This translation published in the United States of America by Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1983
Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Allan Lane
Published by Penguin Books, 1984
First published by Puffin Books, 1985
Second Puffin edition, 1997
Published by Firebird, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005
Eleventh printing based on the number line
Canada: $11.99

01-Jan-2005
Firebird
Trade Paperback

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Author(s)

Michael Ende
Birth: 12 Nov 1929 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Death: 29 Aug 1995 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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