Beschreibung
Details
Verkaufsrang
5428
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.05.1990
Verlag
Doubleday USASeitenzahl
1200
Maße (L/B/H)
24,4/16,5/6 cm
Gewicht
1585 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-385-19957-5
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.
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. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.
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. 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. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.
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. 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 issues that will determine our survival.
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. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.
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. 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. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.
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. 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 issues that will determine our survival.
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Epic Battle Between Good and Evil
Bewertung (Mitglied der Book Circle Community) am 23.12.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 2093224
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
Oh boy, Stephen King can write. His style hits the message truely home. But he tends to droole on and on and on… Until I put the book down some ten years ago and just picked it up recently to finish the last couple of hundret pages. And oh my, it was an intense final stand.
This book should have been at least two books. The first half deals with a deadly virus and its aftermath. The second half focuses on building a new society. Both parts are overshadowed by the struggle between good and evil, nature and technology, ego and community.
I appreciatet a lot of ideas and the superbe writing style. Some scenes made me very uncomftable, which is fine and in tune with the overall tone.
Some scenes could have been trimmed down or cut alltogehter without losing anything about the story. In my oppinion, Mr. King has a problem in handling female characters. In The Stand, the only role for all the ladies is to be desired and carry out the next generation. This upset me tremendously.
After a long pause I finished the beast of a book and can recommend it to everyone who is into dystopien settings and needs to kill some extra time.
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wow!! die beste Pandemie-Story die ich bisher gelesen habe
Bewertung aus Breitenfurt am 14.09.2022
Bewertungsnummer: 1786304
Bewertet: eBook (ePUB)
Pandemiegeschichten gibt es von vielen Autoren. Aber diese gefällt mir am besten.
Schon im ersten Teil beschreibt King in vielen fantasievollen Details die letzten Tage der Opfer und wie sie alle versuchen, bis zum letzten Atemzug die Normalität weiter zu leben. (dies ist die Version in der die ursprünglichen Details wieder ergänzt wurden). Viele dieser Detailstories wären für sich allein schon fast vollwertige Kurzromane mit extrem schillernden Schicksalen.
Spannender Lesestoff trotz Detailreichtum.
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