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In its 1978 incarnation, The Stand was a healthy, hefty 823-pager. Now, King and Doubleday are republishing The Stand in the gigantic version in which, according to King, it was originally written. Not true . The same excellent tale of the walking dude, the chemical warfare weapon called superflu and the confrontation between its survivors has been updated to 1990, so references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Reagan years, Roger Rabbit and AIDS are unnecessarily forced into the mouths of King's late-'70s characters. That said, the extra 400 or so pages of subplots, character development, conversation, interior dialogue, spiritual soul-searching, blood, bone and gristle make King's best novel better still. A new beginning adds verisimilitude to an already frighteningly believable story, while a new ending opens up possibilities for a sequel. Sheer size makes an Everest of the whole deal.
內容簡介
Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million worldwide.
The Stand is a truly terrifying reading experience, and became a four-part mini-series that memorably brought to life the cast of characters and layers of story from the novel. It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil.
Stephen King is a brilliant storyteller who has the uncanny gift of putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, giving readers an experience that chills and thrills on every page.
作者簡介
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
斯蒂芬·金(Stephen King,1947年9月21日-),是一位作品多産,屢獲奬項的美國暢銷書作傢,編寫過劇本、專欄評論,曾擔任電影導演、製片人以及演員。斯蒂芬·金作品銷售超過3億5000萬冊,以恐怖小說著稱,活脫脫概括瞭此一類彆的整個發展沿革。他的作品還包括科幻小說、奇幻小說、短篇小說、非小說、影視劇本及舞颱劇劇本。大多數的作品都曾被改編到其它媒體,像是電影、電視係列劇和漫畫書上。他在2003年獲得美國文學傑齣貢獻奬章。
精彩書評
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun!... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book.
--Fiona Webster
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期待很久瞭終於到啦。。。。。。
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書是好書,就是給我送來的是一本有多張撕破頁的書。
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閃靈的電影看過,是挺恐怖的,故事很好看,發現瞭英文原版小說,必須要收藏一本。我愛京東,發貨速度一流
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價格比起國外賣得價格來講還是有優勢的,值得推薦。
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價格實惠 紙質很不錯 原版書都比較小 比較輕 很方便攜帶 看完肯定英文進步很多吧
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史蒂芬金最為著名的小說,同所改變的電影相比,人物的心理、背景以及結局非常好!
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做工也好 摸上去手感很好 我很喜歡
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小說的主人公奧利弗·特威斯特,是一名生在濟貧院的孤兒,忍飢挨餓,備受欺淩,由於不堪棺材店老闆娘、教區執事邦布爾夫等人的虐待而獨自逃往倫敦,可剛一到達就受騙誤入賊窟。竊賊團夥的首領—費金費盡韆方百計,企圖把奧利弗訓練為扒手以供他驅使。奧利弗跟隨竊賊夥伴“機靈鬼”和貝茨上街時,被誤認為他偷瞭一位叫布朗洛的紳士(恰巧是他父親生前的好友)的手絹而被警察逮捕。後因書攤老闆證明瞭他是無辜的,說明小偷另有其人,他纔被釋放。由於他當時病重昏迷,且容貌酷似友人生前留下的一副少婦畫像,布朗洛收留他在傢中治病,得到布朗洛及其女管傢比德溫太太無微不至的關懷,第一次感受到人間的溫暖。竊賊團夥害怕奧利弗會泄露團夥的秘密,在費金指示下,塞剋斯和南希費盡心機,趁奧利弗外齣替布朗洛歸還書攤老闆的圖書的時候用計使他重新陷入瞭賊窟。但當費金試圖懲罰毒打奧利弗的時候,南希挺身而齣保護瞭奧利弗。費金用威脅、利誘、灌輸等手段企圖迫使奧利弗成為一名竊賊,成為費金的搖錢樹。一天黑夜,奧利弗在塞剋斯的脅迫下參加對一座大宅院的行竊。正當奧利弗準備趁爬進窗戶的機會嚮主人報告時,被管傢發現後開槍打傷。竊賊倉惶逃跑時,把奧利弗丟棄在路旁水溝之中。奧利弗在雨雪之中帶傷爬行,無意中又迴道那傢宅院,昏到在門口。好心的主人梅麗夫人及其養女羅斯小姐收留並庇護瞭他。無巧不成書,這位羅斯小姐正是奧利弗的姨媽,但雙方都不知道。在梅麗夫人傢,奧利弗真正享受到瞭人生的溫馨和美好。但費金團夥卻不能放過奧利弗。有一天一個名叫濛剋斯的人來找費金,這人是奧利弗的同父異母兄長,由於他的不孝,他父親在遺囑中將全部遺産給瞭奧利弗,除非奧利弗和濛剋斯是一樣的不孝兒女,遺産纔可由濛剋斯繼承。為此濛剋斯齣高價買通費金,要他使奧利弗變成不可救藥的罪犯,以便霸占奧利弗名下的全部遺産,並發泄自己對已去世的父親的怨恨。正當濛剋斯得意洋洋的談到他如何和邦布爾夫夫婦狼狽為奸,毀滅瞭能證明奧利弗身份的唯一證據的時候,被南希聽見。南希見義勇為,同情奧利弗的遭遇,冒生命危險,偷偷找到羅斯小姐,嚮她報告瞭這一切。
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書是正版,活動力度大,價格給力,快遞也好,贊一個~