Hardcover, 720 pages

English language

Published April 19, 2002 by Ballantine Books, LucasBooks.

ISBN:
978-0-345-45339-6
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The Star Wars Trilogy, sometimes titled simply Star Wars Trilogy, is a compilation of the novelizations of the original trilogy movies: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.

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Review of 'The Star Wars Trilogy' on 'Storygraph'

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I'm a big fan of the Star Wars films but these novelisations of the classic trilogy did nothing for me I'm afraid. I hadn't really expected to be bowled over by the quality of the writing but I had hoped for a reasonably enjoyable read and some additional insight into the Star Wars canon. I got neither.

George Lucas's Star Wars was the best of the bunch (which surprised me, given the brain-dead and cheesy dialogue he gave his characters to spout in the prequel trilogy). Donald F. Glut's The Empire Strikes Back and James Kahn's Return of the Jedi were little more than slightly fleshed-out versions of the film screenplays but Lucas's book felt better than that, like it was the first time he'd written about the story that was in his head. The other two books, in comparison, felt like rush jobs to cash in on the films. …

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Subjects

  • Science fiction, American
  • Star Wars fiction