Four mesmerizing novellas from the magical pen of Stephen King, including: -- "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"-- "Apt Pupil"-- "The Body"-- "The Breathing Method"

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

本书收入中学生社会调查报告的小论文约百篇。其中包括《改革步伐永不停止》、《伟大就在脚下》、《我们要学，但也要玩》、《艰苦奋斗永不过时》、《从乾隆爷和克林顿谈起》等。 

11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the date of the novel's title). The novel was announced on the author's official site on March 2, 2011.[1] A short excerpt was released online on June 1, 2011,[2] and another excerpt was published in the October 28, 2011 issue of Entertainment Weekly[3] The novel was published on November 8, 2011,[4] and quickly became a number-one bestseller. It stayed on the list for an additional seventeen weeks. 11/22/63 won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel,[5][6] and was nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel[7] and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.[8] The novel required deep research to accurately portray the late 1950s and early 1960s.[9] King commented on the amount of research it required, saying "I've never tried to write anything like this before. It was really strange at first, like breaking in a new pair of shoes."[9] The novel's time-travel premise marks it as science fiction, specifically the alternative history subgenre, although the extensive period research undertaken by King, dealing with real-life events and people between 1958 and 1963, gives it a strong feeling of historical fiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11/22/63

“黑暗塔”系列是斯蒂芬·金最负盛名的小说，他耗时三十余年才完成这部史诗般的奇幻巨著。据斯蒂芬·金披露：他是受了托尔金《指环王》的启示后才决定写这部历史上最长的通俗小说的。这个糅合了传奇、西部故事和奇幻等多种元素的系列多年来受到众多读者的追捧，在他漫长的创作过程中，许多读者一直在孜孜不倦地讨论书中令人琢磨不透的情节，还有狂热的“黑暗塔”迷写信恳求他揭晓谜底，甚至有人称自己将不久于人世，恐怕等不到这个系列的最后一本出版，试图以此说服斯蒂芬·金提前将故事的结局透露给他。 ×　　　　　　×　　　　　　×　　　　　　×　　　　　　×　　　　　　× 苏珊娜的身体被“魔鬼母亲”米阿劫持，米阿的目的是由邪恶的“血王”的手下接生她的孩子——这个孩子将会给所有的世界带来毁灭。时间紧迫，卡拉汉神父、杰克和奥乙追踪苏珊娜和米阿的踪迹来到曼哈顿，而罗兰和艾迪则来到1977年的缅因州找寻书店老板凯文·塔尔。斯蒂芬·金本人也将出现在书中……

Book Description "If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade -- how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must always have them close at hand. He takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writer's art and life, offering practical and inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection. Serialized in the New Yorker to vivid acclaim, On Writing culminates with a profoundly moving account of how King's overwhelming need to write spurred him toward recovery, and brought him back to his life. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower -- and entertain -- everyone who reads it. Amazon.com Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You're right there with the young author as he's tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing babysitters, uptight schoolmarms, and a laundry job nastier than Jack London's. It's a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. "I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with Carrie. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in Misery, the mind-possessing monsters in The Tommyknockers, and the haunting of the blocked writer in The Shining symbolized his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife's intervention, which he describes). "There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing." King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. He shows what you can learn from H.P. Lovecraft's arcane vocabulary, Hemingway's leanness, Grisham's authenticity, Richard Dooling's artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman's sentence fragments. He explains why Hart's War is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard's Be Cool could be the antidote. King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Tim Appelo

1963年11月22日，美国得克萨斯州达拉斯市响起三声枪响，总统肯尼迪遇刺身亡，世界随之改变。如果你能改变历史，一切将会怎样？斯蒂芬•金的新作扣人心弦，小说讲述男主人公穿越时空，阻止暗杀约翰•菲茨杰拉德•肯尼迪的行动。 继《穹顶之下》获得广泛赞誉和巨大成功之后，斯蒂芬•金这一次引领读者回到过去——一个真正的历史时刻…… 《11/22/63》悬念不断升级，是斯蒂芬•金的巅峰之作，更是对一个纯真时代的献礼。此书被选为《纽约时报》年度五优小说，《今日美国》年度十佳图书，并获《洛杉矶时报》优秀图书奖。 ———————— 美国最杰出的在世作家。 ——李•恰尔德 斯蒂芬•金的又一部史诗，他个人的巅峰代表作。 ——《星期日泰晤士报》 大师的笔又写出了另外一部非同一般的小说。 ——《独立报》 斯蒂芬•金最高水平之作。 ——《今日美国》