The Star Wars Trilogy: A New Hope/The Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi

by James Kahn, George Lucas, Donald F. Glut

Book Overview

A special anniversary collector's edition featuring the novels of all three classic films--Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Forty years... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345348060
• ISBN13: 9780345348067
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Not impressed

Bought it under good condition but I'm not impressed.vthe cover has a good amount of damage to it and you can also tell that some of the pages got wet at one point. Definitely not in "good" condition. I'd classify this more on the acceptable category not the good

THIS IS IT

This is it, the first three stories to hit the screen, though as we now know, actually four through six. Lucas always saw Star Wars as six episodes. All of the original Star Wars movies between the covers of a book. Not only easy to read, but captivating in the reading. You just don't want to put them down, they keep pulling the reader into the story. Cannot recommend enough for any and all enjoying the Star Wars saga. These are the first basic stories from which all the others flow. Even at this late date Star Wars readers cannot afford to be without them. Semper Fi.

From Tatooine to Endor......

The 25th Anniversary edition of The Star Wars Trilogy breaks no new ground or make any editorial changes to the three movie tie-in novels based on the screenplays for Star Wars (now known as A New Hope), The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. There are no adjustments or rewrites to make the novels match the Special Edition re-releases of 1997. It isn't even the first time all three novels are collected in one volume...there are mass-market and trade paperback three-in-one editions. The only new features are the cover art by Ralph McQuarrie, the conceptual artist whose paintings "sold" George Lucas' "out of this world" ideas to leery 20th Century Fox executives and short intros to each novelization by Lucas himself. Whether or not those were written for the 25th Anniversary Edition or if they appeared in other reissues of the novels isn't important; what is important is that the 25th Anniversary Edition's elegant package recaptures the magic of reading the Classic Trilogy....Like most novelizations of popular movies, the authors (Alan Dean Foster being the ghostwriter for George Lucas, Donald F. Glut, and James Kahn) have adapted the screenplays to Episodes IV, V and VI with a certain sense of unity, yet each writer has a distinctive style of his own. On the whole, the best writer is Foster, who had, before Star Wars, adapted the Star Trek animated series into the Star Trek Logs series. Very few Star Wars authors, with the exception of Timothy Zahn and a few others, capture the essence of the characters and situations of the movies as well as Foster. Glut is almost as good a writer, and his style is not all that different from Foster's. Kahn's style is minimalist. I like the Jedi novelization, but there is a strange sense of connect-the-dots permeating it all the same.All right, so we aren't talking great literature here, and I do know that the writers work from drafts of the screenplay that are different from the final shooting script. That's why Luke Skywalker's comm sign in the novel of A New Hope is Blue Five; in the movie the callsign is Red Five. And the novels do expand the storyline and "restore" deleted scenes....the literary equivalent of a DVD extra features disc, you might say. I rate this book 5 stars not because it is brilliantly written or philosophically meaningful, but rather because it recaptures the magic of reading those dog-eared paperbacks, but with a bit more class.

You'll wanna read it over and over again!

This book grabs your attention over and over again. When I'm at school all I want to do is go home and read this book again. As most Star Wars fans know it's about Luke Skywalker and his journey towards becoming a jedi. This book features all three star wars, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Return Of The Jedi. If you must know this book is just as good as the movie but it's even more fun to find out what the characters are thinking during lightsaber fights, empier encounters, and all scenes with Darth Vader and The Emporer. This book deserves the title of star wars and a great book reveiw!

These books are beyond words!

I love the Star Wars Trilogy and I think anyone else who reads it will love it too. The characters are described so well that I can visulise them and everything about them on my mind's eye. My favorite book out of the three is Return of the Jedi, but Star Wars, (A New Hope,) and The Empire Strikes Back make it very hard to choose. I also love the movies. If you like the book, it is a pretty good bet you'll like the movie too.

3 great stories of science fiction!

George Lucas weaves awesome tales of realistic science fiction. These 3 stories are the best science fiction pieces I have ever read. They are witty, charming, and humurous. The creativity in these stories is astounding! The characters are great! George Lucas combines romance with action, and danger, for the Star Wars triliogy. Anyone who likes science fiction, I highly recommend these books. The movies are just as great, so see them too!