(A chapter cut from the first edition). 32.
1,152 pagesPublished in hardcover by Doubleday in May 1990, this became the longest book published by King at 1,152 pages.
Although the six-hour length makes it nigh-impossible to digest in one sitting, this well-paced adaptation of Stephen King's apocalyptic magnum opus ranks among the best adaptations of the author's work, with strong performances from Gary Sinise, Miguel Ferrer, and especially Jamey Sheridan as a good-old-boy version of ...
Because the legendary horror author didn't write a full sequel to The Stand, there isn't a specific blueprint for a potential season 2 — but that's not to say it couldn't be done. The series ended with Stephen King's brand-new coda, following the nuclear destruction of New Vegas and the apparent death of Randall Flagg.
It has become common knowledge for devout King fans that his favorite book he's ever written is Lisey's Story. This 2006 novel is very personal for King, as it focuses on his relationship with his wife, Tabitha.
Re-issue of The Stand: Complete and Uncut. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition is an expanded edition of Stephen King's 1978 novel The Stand, running 345 pages or more longer than the original. The illustrations in the revised edition were done by Bernie Wrightson.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld, is another often considered among the longest-running series, with 45 novels. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is another, with 14 books (including Brandon Sanderson's contributions following Jordan's death, as a cowriter on the final three titles).
ListBook titleAuthorWord countLes MisérablesVictor Hugo545,925Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand645,000 (estimate by the publisher and by The New York Times and by the author quoting printer's word count)Jean-ChristopheRomain Rolland610,000 (estimated)JerusalemAlan Moore600,000 (estimated)45 more rows
The newer version even includes an epilogue episode where Flagg tempts Frannie one more time. It handles its themes in a much more nuanced manner than its predecessor did. So while the original was an overall better miniseries, the new one does deserve some recognition for things it did right.
In 2022, King stated while the character started off as Flagg that was no longer the case: "I saw him as a force of evil when I first started to write about the box. By the time I realized he was a force of the White, it was too late to change the initials."
Harold Lauder. Harold Emery Lauder is sixteen years old and lives in Ogunquit, Maine, at the beginning of the novel.
30-He introduces you to the immune, telling the story mostly from the point of view of Frannie Goldsmith, a pregnant, unwed college student; 30-ish Stu Redman, easygoing, but introverted; Larry Underwood, a rock singer whose first record hits the charts as the superflu hits the streets; Nick Andros, a deaf-mute drifter; ...
The average reader will spend 24 hours and 32 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute).
Terry Pratchett's Discworld, is another often considered among the longest-running series, with 45 novels. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is another, with 14 books (including Brandon Sanderson's contributions following Jordan's death, as a cowriter on the final three titles).
For King fans, this is a long time coming because The Stand isn't just one of the author's finest works; it's one of the all-time great speculative novels. In 2003, the BBC listed it as one of the 100 all-time must-read books, smack bang in-between Of Mice and Men and Anna Karenina.
ListBook titleAuthorWord countLes MisérablesVictor Hugo545,925Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand645,000 (estimate by the publisher and by The New York Times and by the author quoting printer's word count)Jean-ChristopheRomain Rolland610,000 (estimated)JerusalemAlan Moore600,000 (estimated)45 more rows
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The Stand is the fourth and longest novel by bestselling author Stephen King, who has written over 60 books to date, including such well-known titles as Carrie (1974), The Shining (1977), Pet Sematary (1983), Misery (1987), and The Green Mile (1996). It falls into the categories of post-apocalyptic science fiction and horror fantasy.
The Stand almost defies classification. While it is certainly a horror story in the sense that frightening events and supernatural powers are depicted, it also qualifies clearly as science fiction ...
Stephen King's The Stand is a thrilling novel that portrays the forces of good against evil. In the year 1991, a plague strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are "immune" to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve God instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the "Dark
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When originally published in 1978, The Stand was approximately 800 pages long. This edition represented a compromise on King’s part because his publisher forced him to cut 400 pages from his original manuscript. He later published an unabridged version of the novel in May 1990 containing 1,200 pages.
The Stand tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic world in which the survivors must rebuild society from the ground up. One group coalesces around an elderly female prophet, while another rallies to the cause of a totalitarian leader named Randall Flagg. The conflict between the forces of light and darkness allows the novel to explore the themes of how to build an ideal society, the cyclic persistence of evil, and the necessity of taking a stand against it.
The Stand is the fourth and longest novel by bestselling author Stephen King, who has written over 60 books to date, including such well-known titles as Carrie (1974), The Shining (1977), Pet Sematary (1983), Misery (1987), and The Green Mile (1996). It falls into the categories of post-apocalyptic science fiction and horror fantasy.
Abagail instructs four of the men in the Boulder Free Zone colony to walk to Las Vegas to confront Flagg. They will almost certainly die as a result, but all of them have faith in Abagail’s vision and the necessity of making a stand against Flagg.
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The Complete and Uncut Edition of The Stand is considered to be King's longest stand-alone work with its 1,152 pages, surpassing King's 1,138-page novel It. The book has sold 4.5 million copies. The Stand was highly appreciated by reviewers and is considered one of King's best novels.
In 1990 , The Stand was reprinted as a Complete and Uncut Edition. King restored some fragments of text that were initially reduced, revised the order of the chapters, shifted the novel's setting from 1980 to 10 years forward, and accordingly corrected a number of cultural references.
The land of Mordor ('where the shadows lie,' according to Tolkien) was played by Las Vegas. While writing The Stand, King nearly stopped because of writer's block. Eventually, he reached the conclusion that the heroes were becoming too complacent, and were beginning to repeat all the same mistakes of their old society .
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a pandemic of a weaponized strain of influenza that kills almost the entire world population. The few survivors, united in groups, establish a new social system and engage in confrontation ...
King started writing The Stand in February 1975. The book was difficult for him to write because of the large number of characters and storylines.
The first paperback release in 1980 changed the setting date to 1985. The novel marks the first appearance of Randall Flagg, King's recurring antagonist, whom King would bring back several times in his later writings. The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition. The Complete and Uncut Edition cover. Author.
The Stand was also planned by King as an epic The Lord of the Rings –type story in a contemporary American setting:
Stanley and Zero return in secret to Camp Green Lake to dig up Kissin' Kate Barlow's treasure.
Ms. Morengo forces the Warden to release Zero.
Stanley carries Zero to the top of the Big Thumb, ending the curse on his family.
Kissin' Kate Barlow buries a stolen fortune in the desert and dies, daring Trout Walker to find it.
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Part 2, Chapter 8. Richie crosses the Derry town line while remembering his Voice of the Irish Cop, which he develops after Mr. Nell catche... Read More. Part 2, Chapter 9. Beverly chats with a fellow passenger on her flight from Chicago to Maine.
Read More. Part 1, Chapter 2. On the last night of Derry's Canal Days Festival in July 1984, three teenagers—John "Webby" Garton, Chris Unwin, and Ste... Read More. Part 1, Chapter 3. On May 28, 1985, Mike Hanlon makes six phone calls from his home in Derry and reminds each of the recipients of a promis...
The Kitchener Ironworks explodes during an Easter-egg hunt, killing more than 100 people.
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37. “At first Stu accepted the sound without question; it was such a typical part of a bright summer morning.” Stu meets Glen Bateman and Kojack the dog. They have cold beers, sandwiches and become friends. Bateman has theories. They discuss their dreams. That night Stu has a nightmare that he’s back in the lab.
Second part of chapter is a long exploration of his relationship with his mother, who loves him, but doesn’t think much of him. The first longer chapter. 6–7K words. 6.
38. “As the superflu epidemic wound down, there was a second epidemic that lasted roughly two weeks.” A great chapter missing from the first edition. Dozens of stories of the second die off.
49. “When Lucy Swann woke up it was fifteen minutes to midnight…” The Judge has joined Larry’s party. He talks to Lucy about Larry, a man struggling to be good. Lucy is sleeping with Larry, but knows he is drawn to Nadine. Nadine is weird and dark and denies she has been having dreams. Switching to Nadine’s PoV we get her backstory and a sense of her entanglement with Flagg. She is drawn to Larry, but not enough to break with the Dark Man. She is torn. First shorter chapter in a while. Only 7K words.
Enraged, Flagg orders Lloyd to shoot him. Lloyd does. Next morning Larry and Ralph are led to their public execution, but before Flagg can kill them, Trashy reappears with his nuke. A glowing ball of fire from Flagg’s finger, silences Whitney’s protest at the execution, and then sets off the nuke.
27. “Larry Underwood sat on a bench in Central Park on the morning of June 27, looking into the menagerie.” New York is almost dead and Larry might be going crazy. Monster shouters, dazed survivors, ‘Chance of a lifetime, man’. Larry regrets his split with Rudy. He meets Rita Blakemoor. They have a lunch date.
22. “When Creighton came in on June 24, he found Starkey looking at the monitors, his hands behind his back.” All is lost. Sparky quotes Yeats.
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a deadly pandemic of weaponized influenza and its aftermath, in which the few surviving humans gather into factions that are each led by a personification of either good or evil and seem fated to clash with each other. King started writing t…
An extremely contagious and lethal strain of influenza is developed as a biological weapon in a secret U.S. Department of Defense laboratory in northern California. It is estimated to be 99.4% fatal. The Complete and Uncut Edition includes a prologue detailing the development of the virus and the security breach that causes its accidental release. Security guard Charles Campion manages to escape before the facility is locked down and takes his family out of the state.
In Danse Macabre, King writes about the origins of The Stand at some length. One source was Patty Hearst's case. The original idea was to create a novel about the episode because "it seemed that only a novel might really succeed in explaining all the contradictions".
The author also mentions George R. Stewart's novel Earth Abides, which describes the odyssey of one of the last human survivors after the population is nearly annihilated by a plague, as one of t…
The novel was originally published in 1978 in hardcover, with a setting date of 1980, in abridged form. The first paperback release in 1980 changed the setting date to 1985. The novel marks the first appearance of Randall Flagg, King's recurring antagonist, whom King would bring back several times in his later writings.
In 1990, an unabridged edition of The Stand was published, billed as The Complete and Uncut E…
The Stand received critical acclaim; it was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1979, and was adapted into both a television miniseries for ABC and a graphic novel published by Marvel Comics. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 53 on the BBC's The Big Read poll.
A film adaptation of The Stand was in development hell for over 10 years. During the 1980s, Stephen King had planned a theatrical film, with George A. Romero directing and himself writing, not trusting anybody else with the project. In the 1995 Complete and Uncut edition of the book, King admitted he had in mind a few fan castings for his characters, those being Robert Duvall as Randall Flagg, and Marshall Crenshaw as Larry Underwood. However, writing a workable screenp…
• The Stand title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bookpoi — How to identify first edition copies of The Stand by Stephen King.