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An edition of Misery (1978)

Misery

First Trade Paperback Edition (9)

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  • ★★★★ 4.1 (111 ratings) ·
  • 1,972 Want to read
  • 99 Currently reading
  • 210 Have read

BESTSElliNG NOVELIST PAUI SHEIOON has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is dismayed to discover Paul's plans to kill off Misery Chastain, the heroine of his beloved series. Annie is more than a rabid reader—she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. She is also his captor, imprisoning him in her isolated house, where no one knows he is.

Annie wants Paul to write his greatest work—just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an axe. And then there's the blowtorch.

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, a classic film starring Academy Award winner Kathy Bates, and recently adapted for the stage, starring Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf, Misery is one of King's most brilliant and formidably unnerving books ever. --back cover

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Scribner
Language
English
Pages
351

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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

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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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2019, Hodder
paperback in English
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2016-01, Scribner
Trade Paperback in English - First Trade Paperback Edition (9)
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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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1991, Heyne
in German - Einmalige limitierte Sonderaufl.
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1991, BCA
in English
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1988, New English Library
in English
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1987, Guild Publishing
in English
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1987-01-01, Guild Publishing
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Copyright Date
1987

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Library of Congress
PS3561.I483M53 2016

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Format
Trade Paperback
Pagination
351p.
Number of pages
351

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Open Library
OL26433488M
ISBN 10
1501143107
ISBN 13
9781501143106
OCLC/WorldCat
930446855
Google
cc5NCwAAQBAJ
amazon.ca_asin
1501143107
Goodreads
27877139

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Promise Item

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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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