![]() A great delegation has come to the Empress to seek her help against a formless entity called "The Nothing". The story Bastian reads is set in the magical land of Fantastica, a place of wonder ruled by the benevolent and mysterious Childlike Empress. Unable to resist, he steals the book and hides in his school's attic, where he begins to read. ![]() ![]() While escaping from some bullies, Bastian bursts into the antiquarian book store of Carl Conrad Coreander, where he finds his interest held by a book called The Neverending Story. The book centres on a boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux, an overweight and imaginative child who is neglected by his father after the death of Bastian's mother. The first English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was published in 1983. ![]() The Neverending Story ( German: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, published in 1979. ![]()
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