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The Gunslinger

64.3% complete
1982
56,583
1989
2 times
See 5
The Gunslinger
The Way Station
The Oracle and the Mountains
The Slow Mutants
The Gunslinger and the Dark Man
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 The Dark Tower*
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The Dark Tower*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of fantasy/horror books written by Stephen King over a period of years.  The series is based on the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning.

1) The Gunslinger
2) The Drawing of the Three
3) The Waste Lands
4) Wizard and Glass
5) Wolves of the Calla
6) Song of Susannah
7) The Dark Tower
Copyright © 1982 by Stephen King
To
ED FERMAN
who took a chance on these stories,
one by one
The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
May contain spoilers
The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would someday come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.
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Added: 29-Dec-2002
Last Updated: 27-Apr-2022

Publications

 01-Jul-1989
Signet
Paperback
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Date Issued:
01-Jul-1989
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
$4.95
Pages*:
315
Read:
2 times
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1389
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-451-16052-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-451-16052-2
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Michael Whelan - Illustrator
"BILLIANT FRESH AND COMPELLING... WILL LEAVE YOU PANTING FOR MORE, MORE, MORE!"
- Booklist


This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own.  A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations - The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero throughout the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend.  His pursuit of the Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of the drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.

Complete in itself, THE GUNSLINGER is the first novel in an epic series, THE DARK TOWER.  The second novel, THE DRAWING OF THE THREE, is available in a Plume edition.

"AN IMPRESSIVE WORK OF MYTHIC MAGNITUDE... THE DARK TOWER SERIES MAY TURN OUT TO BE STEPHEN KING'S GREATEST LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT!"
- Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Notes and Comments:
I picked this book up near the end of my Stephen King reading binge where I read just about every book he'd written up to this point.

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Author(s)

Stephen King  
Birth: 21 Sep 1947 Portland, Maine, USA
Notes:
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland Maine.  His parents were Donald Edwin and Ruth Pillsbury King.  Stephen King's father, Donald, went out for cigarettes and never came back.  In January 1959 Stephen King and David King, his brother, began publishing their own newspaper named Dave's Rag

Stephen King went to Lisbon High School in 1962.  In 1963 they he and a friend, Chris Chesley, published a 18 short stories called People, Places, and Things - Volume I.  Stephen King graduated from high school in 1966 and took a went on to the University of Maine.  During his first year at college he finished his first novel entitled The Long Walk.  He submitted the novel for publication but it was rejected.

Stephen King sold his first story The Glass Floor for $35.00.  Stephen King graduated from the University of Maine in June 1970 with a BA in English.  On January 2, 1971, Tabitha Jane Spruce and Stephen King were married.   later that same year Stephen King began teaching at Hampden Academy.

In January 1973, Stephen King submitted Carrie to Doubleday and in March, they bought the book.  Stephen King has had numerous short stories and novels published.  His books have been translated into 33 different languages and have been published in over 35 different countries.  He lives in Bangor, Maine with his wife Tabitha.

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