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The Dark Tower

The Gunslinger

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An edition of The Gunslinger (1976)

The Dark Tower

The Gunslinger

1st Plume printing (1)

by

  • ★★★★ 4.25 ·
  • 36 Ratings
  • 577 Want to read
  • 36 Currently reading
  • 99 Have read

Since the publication of THE GUNSLINGER in an exclusive limited edition, this extraordinary novel has gained near-legendary renown. Now finally, this Plume edition, complete with the Michael Whelan illustrations, brings the work to the author's millions of fans.

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 through 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 a 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, that promises to be Stephen King's crowning achievement.
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New American Library, Berkley
Language
English
Pages
224

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Subjects
succubus, demons, American fiction, fantastic fiction, adventure fiction, science fiction, horror fiction, fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Ciencia-ficción, Adventure stories, Fiction, Cuentos de terror, Good and evil, Roland (Fictitious character : King), Roland (Fictitious character), Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Dark tower (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Roland (fictitious character : king), fiction, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2017-07-30, New York Times bestseller, Roland of Gilead (Fictitious character), Magic, Horror, Thrillers, Supernatural, Suspense, Heroes
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Roland (Fictitious character), Roland (Fictitious character : King), Slow Mutants, The Man in Black, Roland Deschain, Walter o'Dim, Cort, The Crimson King, Marten, Randall Flagg, Gabrielle Deschain, Steven Deschain, Brown, Zoltan, Jake Chambers, Alice
Places
Gilead, In-World, The Dark Tower, the desert, Earth, Tull, Manhattan, Western Sea, the way station
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New York, USA

Edition Notes

US/CAN

Series
The Dark Tower, #1
Copyright Date
1982

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.I483 G86 1988, PS3561.I483G86 1988

Contributors

Illustrator
Michael Whelan

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
224 p. :
Number of pages
224

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24944189M
Internet Archive
darktowergunslin00king
ISBN 10
0452261341
ISBN 13
9780452261341
LCCN
88009938
OCLC/WorldCat
781900910, 608995800, 17765649, 688657628, 988446991
Paperback Swap
0452261341
Alibris ID
9780452261341
Goodreads
995103

Work Description

The Dark Tower I

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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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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