The Stand
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- 文件大小: 2 K
- 开发商: Stephen King
- 文件来源: Internet
- 界面语言: english
- 授权方式: For technical reference only
- 运行平台: win98,win2000,winxp
Stephen King's The Stand is a thrilling novel that portrays the forces of good against evil. In the year 1991, a plague
strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are "immune" to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those
who serve G-d instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the "Dark Man" are drawn to Las Vegas,
Nevada. The two groups separately re-build society, until one must destroy the other. Franni Goldsmith comes very close to killingherself. She thinks she can not deal with her parents' deaths, being unwed and
pregnant, and having the only other survivor in her hometown of Ogunquit, Main be her recently deceased best friend's weird
brother Harold Lauder. Fran puts aside her personal feelings for Harold aside, and goes with him to the place in her dreams, to
Boulder, Colorado.
On their way, they meet up with six people from various states in the United States who joined them on their journey. Fran is disturbed
by her dreams, as all of them are by their own. She dreams of an old lady named Abigail, in Colorado. This lady is kind and loving and
promises to protect them from the evil. In the dreams there is also a "Dark Man". He is always there lurking, waiting to attack.
Harold admits to himself that he is in love with Fran and goes crazy when he realizes how serious Fran has become with Stuart Redman,
one of the newcomers to their traveling group. Harold becomes insanely jealous and plots to separate them, even if it means murder.
Harold doesn't admit it to any of them, but his dreams are different from theirs. In his dreams the "Dark Man" offers Harold power
and respect, something Harold could never imagine in the past. Harold knows his destiny is to go to Las Vegas. The group arrives in
Boulder, and soon after are joined by over one thousand others who dreamt of Abigail and this place. They inevitably form a society
where they settled and has meetings to decide what they would do about the "Dark Man". Abigail tells the people that three of them,
including Stuart, must be sent to destroy the "Dark Man". Meanwhile Harold secretly l
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