Michael Ende has achieved international acclaim as an author of fantasy literature. His success came in 1960 with his first novel, Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (translated as Jim Butto...
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Critical Essay by Library Journal
As in all good fairy tales, the protagonist [of The Neverending Story] undergoes various rites of passage, and Ende does an expert job of conveying a sense of magic ...
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Critical Essay by Paul M. Lloyd
Ende has an eye for vivid colors and is fairly imaginative in the creation of adventures [in The Neverending Story]. However, these adventures are not all especially c...
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Critical Essay by Somtow Sucharitkul
The Neverending Story seems destined, by dint of its advertising budget, for financial success. Since, in addition, it is an import from Germany and will therefor...
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Critical Essay by Dan Cryer
Although "The Neverending Story" has been a best seller in Europe, it's hard to see why. The book's appeal seems limited to readers about Basti...
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Critical Essay by David Quammen
["The Neverending Story"] is a fantasy epic with all the requisite elements of the genre: chimerical creatures, exotic forests and mountains, unpronounce...
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Critical Essay by Pamela Marsh
Alas, it takes more than ballyhoo to make a book worthwhile Just to open ["The Neverending Story"] is to suffer disappointment and be vividly reminded tha...
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Critical Essay by Alexander Stille
Although Michael Ende wrote "The Neverending Story" as a children's book, it became a nationwide best seller in West Germany and a bible of the...
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Critical Essay by Rhoda Koenig
[The Neverending Story] is a curious piece of work: A fantasy about a small, fat boy who enters into a book he is reading and becomes the hero of a magic quest…....
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Critical Essay by Tom Easton
[The Neverending Story] offers levels of meaning—pure wishfulfillment, paradox and intrigue, a philosophy of fantastic creation. It is thoughtful and astonishing a...
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Critical Essay by Edmund Fuller
["The Neverending Story"] is full of fresh, imaginative invention, although, like all such modern works, it owes honorable debts to our heritage of myth,...
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Michael (Andreas Helmuth) Ende
Critical Essay by Library Journal
