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The Shining by Stephen King

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Author Biography

Name: Stephen King
Variant Name: Stephen Edwin King, Richard Bachman, John Swithen
Birth Date: September 21, 1947
Place of Birth: Portland, Maine, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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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...
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Biography of Stephen King
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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...
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Biography of Stephen King
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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...


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The Shining Information
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The Shining (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 changed it...


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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
CHARACTERS' VOICES, DETAILS OF TIME AND PLACE SHINE IN NOVEL.(Spotlight)
02/02/1997: 367 words, approx. 1 pages
Byline: Joan Hinkemeyer The Empress of One By Faith Sullivan. Milkweed Editions. 404 pages. $22.95. In her latest novel, Faith Sullivan returns to the small southern Minnesota town of Harvester that she made so familiar to readers in The...
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The Washington Post
`Quixote' Redux;Guinness Shines in Adaptation of Green Novel
02/13/1987: 576 words, approx. 2 pages
Sir Alec Guinness, his hound dog face and bulbous eyes at their most glowingly soulful, returns to public television tonight (WETA-Channel 26 at 9), playing a Spanish priest who at the end of his life seeks out challenges to his beliefs and emerges with...
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Peru's Fujimori to be tried for murder
10/20/2007: 1,385 words, approx. 5 pages
As Peru heads into the most sensational trial in its history, the country is being taken back 16 years to the night when hooded men stormed a barbecue in a Lima tenement courtyard and machine-gunned the crowd, killing 15 people including an 8-year-old boy.It was...
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Former Peruvian soldier gets 6 months
7/1/2007: 260 words, approx. 1 pages
A former Peruvian soldier convicted there in a 1985 massacre of suspected guerrillas was sentenced to six months in federal prison for lying to U.S. officials to obtain a visa.Telmo Ricardo Hurtado was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in May in a deal with prosecutors...
 


Criticism and Essays
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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...
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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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