![]() A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail - and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. Hardback -This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. Illustrations by Bernie Wrightson jacket illustration by John Cayea And those who are reading The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issuesthat will determine our survivalĪ monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, in a desert world, experience dreams of good and evil in confrontation and, through their choices, move toward an actual confrontation For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral comlexity of a true epic. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. The Stand : The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. ![]() This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. Vicinanza said the author likes to explore ways to break the mold and give his readers a sense of adventure.Xix, 1153 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : 25 cm Last year, King released a three-story collection, Blood and Smoke, exclusively for audio. Since then, John Grisham, whose legal thrillers such as The Firm put him in the same sales league as King, and Caleb Carr, author of The Alienist, have opted to use the serial format. Vicinanza was instrumental in the publication in 1996 of The Green Mile as a six-part serial, a format popularized by 19th-century writers such as Dickens and Tolstoy. Ralph Vicinanza, King's agent for foreign rights, came to Scribner with the idea of an original e-book. "What's exciting is that we are able to go from Stephen King's computer to the reader in a faction of the print-book publishing arc," said Kate Tentler, vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Online, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., which itself is part of Viacom Inc. King's publisher said the e-book format bypasses the traditional yearlong publishing cycle. "Up to now, this has been technology in search of a market." "This is really the first effective market test," said Keith Loris, president of, of Maynard, Mass., which provided the technology to download the book to retailers. But King, the author of more than 30 best-sellers, is the first in the top tier of book sales to give that method a try, industry officials said. Some science fiction writers have experimented with cyberspace-only distribution of their work. "I'm curious to see what sort of response there is and whether or not this is the future," King said in a statement.
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