# The Neverending Story

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- Book: [The Neverending Story](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ende/the-neverending-story) ([The Neverending Story.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ende/the-neverending-story.md))
- Authors: [Michael Ende](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ende)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4007-431-4
- Pages: 384
- Published: 1984-12-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.