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The Green Mile

A Novel in Six Parts

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An edition of The Green Mile (1996)

The Green Mile

A Novel in Six Parts

The green Mile

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  • ★★★★ 4.3 (105 ratings)
  • 1,400 Want to read
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  • 213 Have read

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. Guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them.

But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being?

There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine. In The Green Mile, Stephen King builds the tension page by page and then delivers a revelation that will truly blow your mind.

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Publisher
Orion
Language
English
Pages
467

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horror fiction fiction death row inmates prisons Executions and executioners jails sisters murder horror prison officials and employees American Horror tales mice Serialized fiction mystery Murderers Horror tales suspense fiction Penitentiary Paranormal fiction Prisoners death row Prison wardens African American healers miracles serialised fiction serial First-person narrative nursing homes rape Cajuns arsonists Native Americans insurance fraud psychiatric hospitals electrodes electric chairs electric current psychics urinary tract infections empathy straitjackets solitary confinement catatonia supernatural mystery and detective stories Open Library Staff Picks Cuentos de terror Ficción Prisiones Chang pian xiao shuo Coffey, john (fictitious character), fiction Fiction, horror Georgia, fiction John Coffey (Fictitious character) Fiction, thrillers, suspense

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Bowser Mr. Jingles Sir Galahad Steamboat Willie Christopher Danielle Hermione Lionel Tessa Curtis Anderson Jane Austen Kent Avery Battle Arlen Bitterbuck Hank Bitterman Will Bonney Sam Broderick Catlett John Coffey Elaine Connelly Cray Homer Cribus Mrs. Cribus Jeff David Eduard Delacroix Roy Delfines Cora Detterick Howard Detterick Kathe Detterick Klaus Detterick Marjorie Detterick Bill Dodge Brad Dolan Pastor Donaldson Duplissey Janice Edgecombe Paul Edgecombe Paul Edgecombe Sr. Arthur Flanders Toot-Toot Gibbons Arden Hammersmith Burt Hammersmith Caleb Hammersmith Cynthia Hammersmith Miss Hannah Dr. Haverstrom Sam Hollis Herbert Hoover Brutus Howell Chuck Howland Mrs. Javits Magnusson Elmer Manfred Bobo Marchant Beverly McCall Lester McCall Rob McGee Hal Moores Melinda Moores Clarence Mulford George Peterson Eve Price Anthony Ray Ringgold Robinette Roosevelt Betsy Ross Dr. Sadler Brother Schuster Daphne Shurtleff Dean Stanton Harry Terwilliger Hack Van Hay Percy Wetmore Rolfe Wettermark Mrs. Wharton William Wharton Richard Widmark

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United States Briar Ridge Georgia Pines Cold Mountain Penitentiary E Block Green Mile Death Row

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1932

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2000, BCA
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1999, BCA
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1999, FollettBound
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1999, BCA
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1999, Orion
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1998, Orion
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1997, Plume
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1997, Plume
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1997, France loisirs
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Edition Notes

Originally published: 1996.
UK only

Published in
London, England
Series
Stephen King
Other Titles
Coffey on the mile,
Copyright Date
1996

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiv,465p. ;
Number of pages
467

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18604793M
ISBN 10
0752821466
ISBN 13
9780752821467
OCLC/WorldCat
809384955
LibraryThing
29698
Goodreads
54167408

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL81629W

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Work Description

The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work. The book is an example of magical realism.

The Green Mile won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1996. In 1997, The Green Mile was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".


Contains:

  1. The Two Dead Girls
  2. The Mouse on the Mile
  3. Coffey's Hands
  4. The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
  5. Night Journey
  6. Coffey on the Mile

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This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain.
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