The Essential Stephen King

by Stephen J. Spignesi

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Ranks the horror writer's written works and films, discussing reasons for the ranking, quotes, information on revisions and film adaptations, and a summary of the work's plot and main characters.

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Spignesi is a New York Times best-selling author and third generation jeweler. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Canonical title
The Essential Stephen King
Original publication date
2001
Epigraph
Learn to do magic like me and we will drive to Princeton in an old Ford with four retread skins and a loose manifold that boils up the graphite stink of fresh-cooked exhaust we will do hexes with Budweiser pentagrams and old ... (show all)Diamond matchboxes - from "The Hardcase Speaks" A poem by Stephen King December 1971 The place where you made your stand never really mattered ...only that you were there, and still on your feet. - from "The Stand" You can't be careful on a skateboard, man. - from "It"
Dedication
This is in memory of Dominick Spignesi. I have not forgotten the face of my father.

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3561 .I483 .Z873Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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