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An edition of The Silence of the Lambs (1988)

The Silence of the Lambs

  • 4.2 (35 ratings) ·
  • 462 Want to read
  • 27 Currently reading
  • 60 Have read

With his last book, Red Dragon, Thomas Harris took the popular novel into new dimensions of suspense and terror. 'The book simply comes at you and comes at you,' wrote Stephen King, finally leaving you shaken and sober and afraid on a deeper level than simple "thrills" alone furnish.'

In The Silence of the Lambs Harris has surpassed even that extraordinary achievement and created a novel that will be talked about for years to come.

A killer is attacking women across the United States. His methods are horrifying, his motives unknown; he has a purpose, but no one can fathom it. No one except Dr Hannibal Lecter, brilliant psychiatrist and homicidal genius, now confined in strict isolation in a hospital for the criminally insane.

Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is assigned to interview Lecter, to match her wits against his in a race against time to save another young woman from the grotesque fate that has befallen the previous victims. In the process she is drawn along a path of sheer terror, a descent ever deeper into her own memories and nightmares, towards a discovery of incomparable horror.

A masterpiece of suspense and a terrifying study of pure evil, The Silence of the Lambs is a living nightmare - but you wont want it to end.
--front flap

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Publisher
BCA
Language
English
Pages
295

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Oct 01, 2013, St. Martin's Griffin
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2013-10, St. Martin's Griffin
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2009, Penguin Random House
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2007, Magvető
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December 5, 2006, Simon & Schuster Audio
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2005, AST
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2004, Weltbild Buchverlag
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2004, NXB Văn học, CTY Văn hóa Minh Trí - NS. Văn Lang
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June 30, 2004, Random House Mondadori
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Molchanie yagnyat
2003
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The Silence of the Lambs
2002, Arrow Books
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Le silence des agneaux
2002-02, Albin Michel
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Milczenie owiec
2002, Amber
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Chen mo de gao yang
2001, Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si
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The Silence of the Lambs
2001, Center Point Publishing / Compass Press
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2000, Editorial Notícias
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1999, Grijalbo Mondadori
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Das Schweigen der Lämmer
October 1, 1999, Ullstein Hörverlag
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1999?, St. Martin's Paperbacks
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The Silence of the Lambs
1999, Heyne
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October 1, 1999, Heyne Hörbuch, Mchn.
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October 1, 1999, Heyne Hörbuch, Mchn.
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The Silence of The Lambs
September 15, 1998, St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback in English - 10th Anniv edition
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The Silence of the Lambs
October 1998, Tandem Library
Library Binding in English
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The silence of the lambs
1997, Mandarin
in English
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The Silence of the Lambs
January 1, 1997, Mandarin
Hardcover in English
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Chen mo de gao yang
1996, Hai tian chu ban she
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Le silence des agneaux: Roman
1996-01, Éd. de la Seine
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Le silence des agneaux
December 31, 1995, Pocket
Mass Market Paperback in French
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De schreeuw van het lam
1995, Poema Pocket
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1993, Recorded Books, Inc.
Audio cassette in English
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The Silence of the Lambs
1993, Recorded Books
Audio cassette in English
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El silencio de los corderos
1993, R.B.A
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El silencio de los corderos
1993, Ediciones Altaya
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991?, St Martins Paperbacks, St Martins Press Inc (M/M), St. Martin's Press
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The Silence of The Lambs
1991 01, St. Martin's Paperbacks
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991, Mandarin
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991, BCA
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1991, UL-S, Luitingh-Sijthoff
in Dutch
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El silencio de los inocentes
1991, Círculo de Lectores
in Spanish
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Le silence des agneaux
1990 04, Albin Michel
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Das Schweigen der Lämmer
1990, Wilhelm Heyne
in German
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Hitsujitachi no chinmoku
1989, Shinchōsha, Shinchosha
in Japanese
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El Silencio De Los Corderos
1989, EdiVision
Paperback in Spanish
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The Silence of the Lambs
1989, Heinemann
in English
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The silence of the lambs
1988, Mandarin
in English
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The Silence of the Lambs
1988, St. Martin's Press
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1988, St. Martin's Press
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The Silence of the Lambs
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in French
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The Silence of the Lambs
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Edition Notes

Published in
London
Copyright Date
1988

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
294p.
Number of pages
295

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL33891575M
OCLC/WorldCat
57705885
Goodreads
59079149

Work Description

The Silence of the Lambs is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling.

The novel won the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
The novel also won the 1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel.

It was nominated for the 1989 World Fantasy Award.

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Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth.
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