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An edition of The Shining (1977)

The Shining

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  • ★★★★ 4.18 ·
  • 231 Ratings
  • 1863 Want to read
  • 131 Currently reading
  • 316 Have read

What of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel, a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of its own--and a five-year-old boy of innocent beauty whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past?

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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
447

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Subjects
Fiction, horror fiction, demonology, precognition, authors, hotelkeepers, gothic & horror, paranormal fiction suspense & thriller, horror, supernatural thrillers, ghost fiction, horror tales, haunted houses, backstories, property, caretakers, cabin fever, alcoholism, plays, psychics, telepathy, clairvoyance, ghosts, topiary, roque, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Fiction, horror, Torrance, jack (fictitious character), fiction, Colorado, fiction, American literature, Families, Large type books, Family, nyt:e-book-fiction=2013-10-13, New York Times bestseller, Fiction in English
People
Jack Torrance, Danny Torrance, Casey, Chug-Chug, Dick, Jane, Jim, McTeague, Pepys, Winnie-the-Pooh, Wendy's mother, Aileen, Andy, Brent, Darla, Elaine, Jana, Lloyd, Mike, Roger, Sally, Tom, Tommy, Tony, Mr. Aaronson, Mrs. Aaronson, Scott Aaronson, Astor, Johan Sebastian Bach, Baedecker, Bartok, Charles Battaglia, Sister Beatrice, Gary Benson, Victor T. Boorman, Boston Strangler, Dick Bows, Braddock, Josh Brannigan, Mrs. Brant, Bruckner, Truman Capote, Neville Chamberlain, Eddie Cochran, Rodney Conklin, Howard Cottrell, Mr. Crommert, Paul DeLong, Denker, Horace M. Derwent, Sylvia Hunter Derwent, E.L. Doctrow, Donner Party, Dupont, Larry Durkin, Bill Edmonds, Harry Effinger, David Felton, Henry Finkel, Henry Ford, Clarke Gable, Sir Galahad, Vittorio Gienelli, Delbert A. Grady, Grimmer, Charles Grondin, John Gunther, Mr. Hall, Hallorann, Carl Hallorann, Dick Hallorann, Mrs. Hallorann, President Harding, Warren G. Harding, Jean Harlow, Brian Hatfield, George Hatfield, Wally Hollis, Archer Houghton, Sylvia Hunter, Shirley Jackson, Robert T. Leffing, Abraham Lincoln, Carole Lombard, Longfellow, Roger Macassi, Mr. Massey, Mrs. Massey, Frank Masterson, McIver, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Benjamin Moore, Jack Morgan, Margery Morris, Mr. Nevers, Richard Nixon, Robert Norman, Sean Phyllis Sandler O'Casey, Eugene O'Neil, Charles Olson, Pillsbury Dough-Boy, Mr. Porsky, Carl Prashkin, Queems, Robert Redford, Nelson Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nolan Ryan, Phyllis Sandler, Richard Scarne, Frank Scoffy, Albert Shockley, Corbat Stani, Tom Staunton, Robin Stenger, Vic Stenger, Miss Strong, Becky Torrance, Brett Torrance, Daniel Anthony Torrance, John Daniel Torrance, Mark Anthony Torrance, Mike Torrance, Winnifred Torrance, Mr. Trent, Zack Tunney, Stuart Ullman, Vanderbilt, Carlton Vecker, Delores Vickery, VW Family, Horace Walpole, Watson, Boyd Watson, Mr. Watson, Mrs. Watson, Robert Townley Watson, Woodrow Wilson, Darryl F. Zanuck, Peter Zeiss
Places
Overlook Hotel, Colorado Rockies, Florida, Maine

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Garden City, New York

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1977

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.K5227 Sh PS3561.I483, PZ4.K5227 Sh, PS3561.I483 Sh, PS3561.I483

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
447 p. ;
Number of pages
447
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.75 x 1.25 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23253707M
ISBN 10
0385121679
ISBN 13
9780385121675
LCCN
76024212
OCLC/WorldCat
2633796, 779371608, 994020964
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11588

Work Description

Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their young son Danny move into the Overlook Hotel, where Jack has been hired as the winter caretaker. Cut off from civilization for months, Jack hopes to battle alcoholism and uncontrolled rage while writing a play. Evil forces residing in the Overlook – which has a long and violent history – covet young Danny for his precognitive powers and exploit Jack’s weaknesses to try to claim the boy.
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Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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