The Neverending Story

1979 novel by Michael Ende

By Michael Ende

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Published: 1979
Depicts: loneliness, Q19213365, collectivism, power, insanity, loss of reality, creation, personal identity, good and evil, inner world
Subject: fantasy, escapology, Rationalization, mind–body dualism, narration, will, memory, individuation
Genre: metafiction, Bildungsroman, literary fairy tale, fantasy, adventure fiction, speculative fiction, children's fiction
Form: novel
Country of origin: Germany
Language: German
Characters: The Childlike Empress, Bastian Balthazar Bux, Atreyu, Falkor, Engywook, The Old Man of Wandering Mountain, Urgl, Gmork, Carl Conrad Coreander, Xayide, Dame Eyola, Q58190907
Set in: Fantastica, Howling Forest, Ivory Tower, Grassy Ocean, The Swamps of Sadness, land of Dead Mountains, Three Magic Gates, Q58344563, Spook City, Q58325296, Wandering Mountain, Q58208752
Inspired by: Odyssey, Faust, Part Two, Zen in the Art of Archery, Tao Te Ching, Bible, Parzival, Arthurian romance, Nibelungenlied, The Golden Pot, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, The Little Prince, The Last Unicorn
Rights: copyrighted
derivative work: The NeverEnding Story, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, Tales from the Neverending Story, The Neverending Story, The NeverEnding Story III
different from: The Neverending Story
first line: TAIЯAUϘITͶA. ɿɘbͷɒɘɿoꓘ bɒɿͷoꓘ lɿɒꓘ :ɿɘdɒʜͷI
has edition or translation: Die unendliche Geschichte, Die unendliche Geschichte, Nekonečný příběh, Nekonečný příběh, Příběh, který nikdy neskončí, The Neverending Story, The Neverending Story, The Neverending Story
influenced by: heroic poetry, Romanticism, Germanic mythology, Greek mythology, culture of Japan, Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung, Kabbalah
instance of: literary work
intended public: youth
last line: Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte und soll ein andermal erzählt werden.
list of characters: list of The Neverending Story characters
narrative motif: Auryn, The Nothing, science, school, lie, depression, name, Messiah, The Magician, The Hermit, The Tower, maze
narrator: omniscient narrator, personal narrator
nominated for: Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
number of parts of this work: 27
place of publication: Stuttgart
quotes work: Twelfth Night
subtitle: Von A bis Z
takes place in fictional universe: The Neverending Story universe
title: Die unendliche Geschichte, The Neverending Story, La storia infinita
topic's main category: Category:The Neverending Story
uses: story within a story, quest, mise en abyme

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The Neverending Story (German: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, published in 1979. The first English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was published in 1983. It was later adapted into a film series and a television series.

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