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Stephen King | | Variant Name: |
Stephen Edwin King, Richard Bachman, John Swithen | | Birth Date: |
September 21, 1947 | | Place of Birth: |
Portland, Maine, United States | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Stephen (Edwin) King
11188 words, approx. 37.3 pages
 Stephen King has written twenty-six novels (including five under the pen name Richard Bachman), five collections of short fiction, one book of criticism, six screenplays, and other short works. According to Stephen J. Spignesi in The Shape Under the Shee... summary from source:
 Biography of Stephen King
7912 words, approx. 26.4 pages
Stephen King (born 1947) is a prolific and immensely popular author of horror fiction. In his works, King blends elements of the traditional gothic tale with those of the modern psychological thriller, detective, and science fiction genres. Stephen King... summary from source:
 Biography of Stephen King
7472 words, approx. 24.9 pages
Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Two years later, his father, a merchant seaman, went to the grocery store for a pack of cigarettes and never returned. King's mother was...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Shining Information
3,123 words, approx. 10 pages
 <i>The Shining</i> (1977) is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. The title was inspired by the John Lennon song "Instant Karma!", which contained the line "We all shine on…" King had originally wanted to call the book "The Shine," but...
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 Reuters North American News Service Peru police kill Shining Path commander in drug zone
11/27/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages LIMA (Reuters) - Police killed a commander of the Shining Path insurgency and arrested eight guerrillas in a coca-growing region in Peru, officials said Tuesday, after clashing with the group for the third time this month. Epifanio Espiritu Acosta, who used the alias JL,... summary from source:
Reuters North American News Service Peru to deploy extra police to quell drug violence
11/2/2007: 326 words, approx. 1 pages LIMA (Reuters) - Peru will send 100 police to quell drug violence in a coca-growing region and track down suspected guerrillas who killed a police chief in a grenade attack, the interior minister said Friday. In the most audacious assault on security forces in...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Frederick Patten
503 words, approx. 2 pages
[The Shining] has flaws, some minor and some serious…. But when all's said, the novel works! It makes one tremble in anticipation of the day when King gets it all together and writes a 'perfect' book…. King's style … is his most obvious fault. It's all good writing, it's all pertinent, but it goes on and on…. Setting a realistic scene and creating believably complex characters are laudable traits, but King seriously overdoes it.
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Critical Essay by Marc Laidlaw
313 words, approx. 1 pages
The haunted hotel [of The Shining] is a stock sort of device, left over from the days when people were still writing straight ghost stories. The struggling family offers the pathos that no doubt is in part responsible for the book's popularity—real characters, beautifully handled for the most part, though some of the development toward the end is a bit too hasty. Even the child with the "gift" is a common theme of Stephen King's…. But herein they are combined, redev... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Jack Sullivan
293 words, approx. 1 pages
To say that Stephen King is not an elegant writer … is putting it mildly. But inelegance is not precisely the problem in "The Shining."… [In] "The Shining," memories and fantasies often find themselves pretentiously enclosed in parentheses. Sometimes non-punctuation or italics are used—quite arbitrarily—for gimmicky stream of consciousness effect. Occasionally we are subjected to all capitals in parentheses with triple exclamation points (!!! ON BOTH M...
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The Shining by Stephen King | |
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