品牌：Stephen King
基本信息
·出版社：New English Library Ltd
·页码：1440 页码
·出版日：1999年
·ISBN：9780450537370
·条码：9780450537370
·版次：Complete Ed
·装帧：平装
·西班牙语：西班牙语
内容简介
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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.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
作者简介
Stephen King is the bestselling author of more than thirty books of which the most recent are DREAMCATCHER, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL and FROM A BUICK 8. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.
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In 1978, science fiction writerSpider Robinsonwrote a scathing review ofThe Standin which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.The Standis 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."Iloveto burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess....The Standwas 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 onThe Standcame from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."There is much to admire inThe 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--This text refers to theMass Market Paperbackedition.
专业书评
Amazon.com Author Profile
Read about theauthor.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
From Publishers Weekly
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. BOMC selection, QPB main selection.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
New York Times Book Review
"The Stand, complete and uncut...is a book that has everything. Adventure, romance, prophecy, allegory, satire, fantasy, realism, apocalypse. Great."--This text refers to theMass Market Paperbackedition.
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