The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
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The Dark Tower
The Gunslinger
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by King, Stephen
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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
In a desolate reality, on that mirrors our own in frightening ways, a lone and haunting figure known only as Roland makes his way across the endless sands in pursuit of a sinister, dark-robed mystery of a man. Roland is the last of his kind, a “gunslinger” charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world—a world that “moved on” as they say…and the only way he can possibly hope to save everything is to first outwit and confront this man in black, then make him divulge his many arcane secrets. For despite the countless miles he’s already traversed, Roland knows these will merely be his initial steps on his spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower….
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
2017-07, Pocket Books
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
2016-11, Pocket Books
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The Gunslinger
2013, W F Howes Ltd
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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
2013, W F Howes Ltd
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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
2005, Hodder & Stoughton
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O Pistoleiro - Col. A Torre Negra Vol. I
2004, Objetiva
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De scherpschutter
2001, Poema Pocket
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The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series.
The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained in print ever since, with the subtitle RESUMPTION.
The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing his adversary, "the man in black," for many years. The novel fuses Western fiction with fantasy, science fiction, and horror, following Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers, who travels with him part of the way.
"The Gunslinger" (October 1978)
"The Way Station" (April 1980)
"The Oracle and the Mountains" (February 1981)
"The Slow Mutants" (July 1981)
"The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" (November 1981)
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