![]() ![]() Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. ![]() But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. ![]() In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail - and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen. This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.Īnd here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. ![]()
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