In THE GUNSLINGER, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, THE GUNSLINGER leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. And the Tower is closer...
The Dark Tower Series
This epic series follows the last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, on his quest to reach the Dark Tower, which serves as a key to many realities. The story combines elements of fantasy, horror, and western genres, exploring themes of fate, love, and sacrifice.
Recommended Reading Order
Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower in this second mesmerizing volume in his epic series. Roland of Gilead has mysteriously stepped through a doorway in time that takes him to 1980s America, where he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous Odetta Holmes. A savage struggle has begun in which underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Roland's desperate search for the Dark Tower. Masterfully weaving dark fantasy and icy realism, The Drawing of the Three compulsively propels readers toward the next chapter. (back cover)
The Waste Lands
- 608 pages
- 22 hours of reading
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower with the fourth volume in his series. Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world, and slipped into the next. It is here that Roland tells them a long-ago tale of love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.
The Dark Tower V
Wolves of the Calla
IN THE THRILLING FIFTH INSTALLMENT of Stephen King’s remarkable fantasy epic, Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World. Their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers on Mid-World’s borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises toward the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community’s soul. The Wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the Calla-folken both courage and cunning. Their guns, however, will not be enough. --the-dark-tower.com
The dark tower. Song of Susannah
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
This a pivotal instalment in the epic saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'SALEM'S LOT. SONG OF SUSANNAH is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues THE DARK TOWER series seamlessly from WOLVES OF THE CALLA and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.
The Dark Tower VII
- 1072 pages
- 38 hours of reading
"I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO CLOSE. I HEAR ALL MY LOST FRIENDS AND THEIR LOST FATHERS WHISPERING TO ME. THEY WHISPER ON THE TOWER'S VERY BREATH." Roland Deschain of Gilead and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens, surviving against seemingly insurmountable odds. But the final destinies of Roland, Eddie and Susannah Dean, Jake Chambers, Father Donald Callahan, and Oy the billy-bumbler are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever nearer to their own endings and beginnings...and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery. Master storyteller Stephen King surpasses all expectations in this stunning conclusion to his epic magnum opus, entwining tales and places from a vast and complex canvas that is at once breathtakingly imaginative and boldly visionary.
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The Wind Through the Keyhole
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V
L'uomo in nero fuggì nel deserto e il pistolero lo seguì. Così esordiva la storia, sette libri fa. Ora la caccia è finita: Roland di Gilead, con i compagni che ha raccolto attorno a sé nel viaggio, è di fronte al suo destino. Nelle prime pagine di questo volume ritroviamo il gruppetto sano e salvo, sebbene sparso per ogni dove e ogni quando. Susannah-Mia è stata trasportata dal Dixie Pig di New York in una stanza degli orrori di Fedic, dove vedrà la luce suo "figlio". Jake e il Père Callahan, con Oy sono entrati nel locale ad armi spianate per salvare la ragazza, ignorando il pericolo in agguato. Roland e Eddie, con John Cullum, sono nel Maine del 1977, e incominciano a capire che il mondo da cui stanno cercando di fuggire è l'unico reale.
