An edition of Misery (1978)

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An edition of Misery (1978)

Misery

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  • ★★★★ 4.1 (111 ratings) ·
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King's Classic bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his Number One Fan.

Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery has made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wants to get on to some real writing.

That's when the car accident happens, and he wakes up in pain in a strange bed. But it isn't hospital. Annie Wilkes has pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs.

The good news is that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news is that she has long been Paul's Number One Fan. And when she finds out what Paul had done to Misery, she doesn't like it. She doesn't like it at all.

Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive.

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Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
Pages
384

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Subjects

dope, pills, American Novelists, Captives, Fans (Persons), Fiction, Novelists, Prisoners, Suspense fiction, Writers, abuse, fear, horror, isolation, prisoner, suspense, thriller, Nurses, American Horror stories, Horror tales, Pepsi, Fiction, horror, American literature, Authors, fiction, Large type books, American fiction, Literary, Thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, science fiction, general, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Horror - General, Horror & ghost stories, Fiction - Horror, Zhang pian xiao shuo

People

Bossie, Bully, Dumpster, Growler, Hezekiah, Mary, Misery, Peter Gunn, Daniel, Geoffrey Alliburton, Hester Beaulifant, Bryce Bell, Crysilda Berryman, Dr. Bilford, Mrs. Bollinger, Tony Bonasaro, Dr. Bookings, Lady Calthorpe, Ian Carmichael, Misery Carmichael, Sean Carmichael, Thomas Carmichael, Gwendoline Chastain, Misery Chastain, Girl Christopher, Careless Corrigan, Mr. Cranthorpe, Nancy Dartmonger, Eddie Desmond, Ralph Dugan, Charlotte Evelyn-Hyde, Mr. Faverey, Angela Ford, John Ford, Albert Fossington, John Fowles, Kirsten Frawley, Nicholas Freeling, Duncan Fromsley, Ernest Gonyar, Lieutenant Gray, Christopher Hale, Paul Harvey, Billy Haversham, Baron Heidzig, Officer Humbuggy, Mrs. Saspbrak, Tamara Kinsolving, Adrian Krenmitz, Alison Krenmitz, Frederic Krenmitz, Laurene Krenmitz, Paul Krenmitz, Duane Kuchner, Michael Leith, Chief M'Chibi, W. Somerset Maugham, Mr. McKibbon, Trooper McKnight, Danna McLaren, Lee McLaren, Charlie Merrill, Mrs. Mulvaney, Michael O'Whunn, Old Man Patterson, Andrew Pomeroy, Bill Ramage, Mrs. ramage, Glenna Roberts, Tony Roberts, Laura D. Rothberg, Gary Ruddman, Andrea Saint James, Roman D. Sandpiper, Virginia Sandpiper, Mrs. Sheldon, Paul Sheldon, Roger Sheldon, Dr. Shinebone, Paulette Simeaux, Mrs. Soames, Irving Thalman, John Daniel Torrance, Tom Twyford, Van der Valk, Daniel Webster, Mad Jack Wickersham, Trooper Wicks, Annie Marie Wilkes, Carl Wilkes, Crysilda Wilkes, Paul Emery Wilkes, Edmund Wilson, Chuckie Yoder, Scheherazade

Places

Arc de Triomphe, Mei guo

Times

1980s, Xiandai

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2020, Debolsillo
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Misery
2019, Hodder
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Misery
2015, Hodder & Stoughton
Epub in English
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2013, Shang hai wen yi chu ban she
in Chinese
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Misery
2011, Hodder
in English
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Misery
1999-05, Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
mass market paperback in Spanish
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Misery
1991, BCA
in English
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Sie: Roman
1991, Heyne
in German - Einmalige limitierte Sonderaufl.
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Misery
1988, New English Library
in English
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Misery
1987-01-01, Guild Publishing
in English
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Misery
1987, Guild Publishing
in English

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London, England
Copyright Date
1987

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Format
Epub
Number of pages
384

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26433470M
ISBN 10
1848940890
ISBN 13
9781848940895
OCLC/WorldCat
953865733
amazon.co.uk_asin
B003BKZW7M
amazon.de_asin
B003BKZW7M
amazon.it_asin
B003BKZW7M
Goodreads
39091236

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Work ID
OL81634W

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Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his latest book. Annie keeps Sheldon prisoner while forcing him to write a book that brings Misery back to life.

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