Whether you read for pleasure or information, Pearson English Readers offer the best selection of well-known and loved stories. 27,217 words in length (excluding activities)Īnytime, Anyplace, Anybody Pearson English Readers (formerly known as Penguin Readers) have a new design and new features that will help you enjoy reading in English at any level.But when Annie reads his latest book about her favorite character, Misery, Paul know he's in trouble. Soon Pauls biggest fan turns into his biggest enemy and his nightmare begins. When she finds Paul injured after a car crash and takes him home she learns that he has decided to end the series by killing off Misery. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. The woman who saved him, Annie Wilkes, is one of his biggest fans. Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes favourite writer. Paul wakes up in pain, but in a bed on a nearby farm. Misery audio book Alfie James Productions 121 subscribers Subscribe 202 Share 23K views 2 years ago An audio book recording of the hit play 'Misery' by Simon Moore adapted from the novel by. On his way to deliver his latest book, he has an accident on a snow-covered road. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book-one of King's shortest, and best novels ever.Paul Sheldon is a world famous novelist.

Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a 'brand-name' bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her but all the same he needs her power. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa-a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter.

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