A Novel

The Stand

Stephen King

The Stand

Stephen King

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The Stand by Stephen King

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01 PART I: TO BE READ BEFORE PURCHASE
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02 PART 2: TO BE READ AFTER PURCHASE
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03 CHAPTER 1 Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant fourstreet burg about 110
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04 CHAPTER 2 There was a long rock pier running out into the Atlantic Ocean from the Ogunquit, Maine, town
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05 CHAPTER 3 Norm Bruett woke up at quarter past ten in the morning to the sound of kills fighting outside the
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06 CHAPTER 4 It was an hour past nightfall.
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07 CHAPTER 5 Larry Underwood pulled around the corner and found a parking space big enough for the Datsun
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08 CHAPTER 6 It was late afternoon when Frannie went out back to where her father was patiently weeding the
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09 CHAPTER 7 In the dim light that comes over the land just after sunset but before true dark, during one of
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10 CHAPTER 8 On June 18, five hours after he had talked to his cousin Bill Hapscomb, Joe Bob Brentwood pulled
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11 CHAPTER 9 They set on him sometime after dusk, while he was walking up the shoulder of US Route 27,
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12 CHAPTER 10 Larry woke up with a hangover that was not too bad, a mouth that tasted as if a baby dragon had
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13 CHAPTER 11 Larry found a tired-looking black woman on the lobby level who told him she thought Alice
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14 CHAPTER 12 There was a grandfather clock standing in the far corner of the parlor. Frannie Goldsmith had
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15 CHAPTER 13 The red light went on. The pump hissed. The door opened. The man who stepped through was
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16 CHAPTER 14 It was quarter of twelve. Outside the small pillbox window, dark pressed evenly against the glass.
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17 CHAPTER 15 It was two minutes to midnight.
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18 CHAPTER 16 A day later, on June 23, a big white Connie was roaring north on US 180, in another part of the
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19 CHAPTER 17 Starkey was standing in front of monitor 2, keeping a close eye on Tech 2nd Class Frank D.
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20 CHAPTER 18 Nick opened the door between Sheriff Baker's office and the jail cells and they started razzing him
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21 CHAPTER 19 It had been so long since Larry had been in Times Square that he expected it to look different
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22 CHAPTER 20 The Harborside was the oldest hotel in Ogunquit. The view was not so good since they had built
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23 CHAPTER 21 Stu Redman was frightened.
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24 CHAPTER 22 When Ceighton came in on June 24, he found Starkey looking at the monitors, his hands behind
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25 CHAPTER 23 Randall Flagg, the dark man, strode south on US 51, listening to the nightsounds that pressed
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26 CHAPTER 24 Lloyd Henreid, who had been tagged “the baby-faced, unrepentant killer” by the Phoenix papers,
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27 CHAPTER 25 Nick Andros pushed aside one of the curtains and looked out into the street. From here, on the
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28 CHAPTER 26 Some campus group, probably either Students for a Democratic Society or the Young Maoists,
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29 CHAPTER 27 Larry Underwood sat on a bench in Central Park on the morning of June 27, looking into the
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30 CHAPTER 28 There was a strawberry pie in the fridge. It was covered with Saran Wrap and after looking at it
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31 CHAPTER 29 That same evening, as Larry Underwood slept with Rita Blakemoor and as Frannie Goldsmith
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32 CHAPTER 30 Dust blew straight across the Texas scrubland, and at twilight it created a translucent curtain that
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33 CHAPTER 31 Christopher Bradenton struggled out of delirium like a man struggling out of quicksand. He ached
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34 CHAPTER 32 Someone had left the door open between Maximum Security and the cellblock beyond it; the
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35 CHAPTER 33 At twenty-two minutes of nine by the clock over the sheriff's office doorway, the lights went off.
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36 CHAPTER 34 For a long time, for days (how many days? who knew? not the Trashcan Man, that was for sure),
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37 CHAPTER 35 “I want to get out of the city,” Rita said without turning around. She was standing on the small
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38 CHAPTER 36 There was a small park in the center of Ogunquit, complete with a Civil War cannon and a War
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39 CHAPTER 37 At first Stu accepted the sound without question; it was such a typical part of a bright summer
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40 CHAPTER 38 As the superflu epidemic wound down, there was a second epidemic that lasted roughly two
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41 CHAPTER 39 Lloyd Henreid was down on his knees. He was humming and grinning. Every now and then he
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42 CHAPTER 40 Nick Andros lay sleeping but not quiet on the bunk in Sheriff Baker's office. He was naked except
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43 CHAPTER 41 Larry woke up at half past eight to sunlight and the sound of birds. They both freaked him out.
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44 CHAPTER 42 While Larry Underwood was taking his Fourth of July spill only a state away, Stuart Redman was
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45 CHAPTER 43 There was a dead man lying in the middle of Main Street in May, Oklahoma.
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46 CHAPTER 44 He was cracking up—baby, don't you just know it?
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47 CHAPTER 45 © Составление и оформление -el` Poison-, 2002.
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48 CHAPTER 46 It was late evening, July 27. They were camped on what the sign, now halfdemolished by
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49 CHAPTER 47 When it happened, it happened fast. It was around quarter of ten on July 30, and they had been
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50 CHAPTER 48 He came staggering and flapping up a long upgrade, the heat of the sun stewing his stomach and
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51 CHAPTER 49 When Lucy Swann woke up it was fifteen minutes to midnight by the ladies' Pulsar watch she
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52 CHAPTER 50 Dawn was coming up, painting the eastern sky a delicate rose color. Stu Redman and Glen
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53 CHAPTER 51 Ralph's posters announcing the August 18 meeting went up all over Boulder. There was a great
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54 CHAPTER 52 In the early hours of the morning, Mother Abagail lay sleepless in her bed. She was trying to
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55 CHAPTER 53 Excerpts from the Minutes of the Ad Hoc Committee Meeting
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56 CHAPTER 54 Excerpts from the Minutes of the
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57 CHAPTER 55 The Judge's house overlooked a cemetery.
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58 CHAPTER 56 Stu spent the next day at the power station, wrapping motors, and was cycling home at the end
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59 CHAPTER 57 Larry and Leo were sitting on the curb in front of the house. Larry was drinking a warm Hamm's
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60 CHAPTER 58 Fran and Larry sat at the kitcen table of Stu and Fran's place, sipping coffee. Downstairs, Leo was
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61 CHAPTER 59 Birds.
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62 CHAPTER 60 She and Lucy watched the undramatic start of their quest from the steps of Larry's house. The
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63 CHAPTER 61 The dark man had set his guardposts all along the eastern border of Oregon. The largest was at
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64 CHAPTER 62 Dayna Jurgens lay naked in the huge double bed, listening to the steady hiss of water coming
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65 CHAPTER 63 © Составление и оформление -el` Poison-, 2002.
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66 CHAPTER 64 The dying man opened the Permacover notebook, uncapped his pen, paused a moment, and then
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67 CHAPTER 65 North of Las Vegas is Emigrant Valley, and that night a small spark of fire glowed in its tumbled
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68 CHAPTER 66 At about the same time that Nadine Cross was beginning to realize certain truths which should
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69 CHAPTER 67 The Walkin Dude was back in Vegas.
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70 CHAPTER 68 Oh, how history repeats itself: Trashcan Man was once again being broiled alive in the devils
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71 CHAPTER 69 Whitney Horgan found Lloyd in his room, lying on the big round bed he had most recently shared
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72 CHAPTER 70 Trashcan Man had found what he wanted.
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73 CHAPTER 71 It was nearly midnight on the evening of September 17. Randall Flagg was in the desert, wrapped
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74 CHAPTER 72 “You know,” Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning,
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75 CHAPTER 73 The three of them camped sixteen miles west of the place where they had left Stu. They had
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76 CHAPTER 74 Stu woke up from a night of broken rest at dawn and lay shivering, even with Kojak curled up
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77 CHAPTER 75 “I almost died, you know,” Nick said. He and Tom were walking up the empty sidewalk together.
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78 CHAPTER 76 © Составление и оформление -el` Poison-, 2002.
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79 CHAPTER 77 Stu was sitting in a chair drawn up to Fran's bed when George Richardson and Dan Lathrop came
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80 CHAPTER 78 MAYDAY
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