The Stand

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 47 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail - and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

In 1978, Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.

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. The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition includes material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.

For hundreds of thousands of fans who heard The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are listening to The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.

Cover artwork ©2020 CBS Interactive Inc.

©1978 Stephen King (P)2012 Random House

Critic reviews

"A master storyteller." (Los Angeles Times)

"[The Stand] has everything. Adventure. Romance. Prophecy. Allegory. Satire. Fantasy. Realism. Apocalypse. Great!" (The New York Times Book Review)

"As brilliant a dark dream as has ever been dreamed in this century." (Palm Beach Post)

Of course 5 stars.

Any additional comments?

The book is so long it's worth the money even if it were bad.
Don't be so cheap and buy it.
Get settled in for a great long drawn out story.

Post apocalypse book. One of the best. With a SK twist.

detailed

some parts of the book seem really over detailed. got carried away with some of the characters but overall a very very good book

Three sneezes and you're dead

This novel is truly one of the most suspenseful novels I've ever listen to and the most disgusting ever! Grover Gardner is a great performer and I can imagine every scene he reads or speaks aloud in the character's voice, but I believe the one thing that makes me feel uneasy in this novel so far is the disease but I hear that isn't the end of it! I would recommend this, even though it is fairly long, to a person looking for a journey.

Great.

This is my favorite Stephen King book. It is worth listening to more than once because of its complexity; the main story is an end times survivalist yarn, but the commentary on human nature and group dynamics is worth consideration too.

still love this book !

Always a Stephen King fan but this was my all time favorite to date. Great to re- read old friend

This was great!

The story is epic and the read was excellent. a real bang for your buck.

the stand

i loved this book, narrator was excellent to listen to, made the story come alive

GREAT BOOK!

Great book with great audio performance. Long book but worth every minute. Would recommend to anyone, not just Stephen king fans

Good book for first time audible user. Well read.

Tried a few other suggested novels and got bored, Stephen King tells a great story and there are many chapters for the money.

the story is unremarkable, simple,.

it's all in telling. I was led through the end of a human world, our world as we know it.
As I was carried along I watched people like my neighbors, like myself. About the people who will survive, the few, and the many who are locked in the draumas of the good who love the community, and the bad who look out for number one,. Most of us are a confused mix in our natures.
This is about people riding thier great wheels of repeating the history of human nature.

I lived through great draumas, written, & told with skill. Well CRAFTED story telling involving the evperences of all the types, seeing their draumas through their own eyes.


WELL DONE INDEED,
and long enough I lost track of the past story.
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