Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

• Author : Stephen King
• Publisher : Scribner
• Release Date : 2020-09-29
• ISBN : 9781982155759

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption—about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book. A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock

• Author : Stephen King
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2017-03-28
• ISBN : 9781501156762

Four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge--the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is "Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and

• Author : Stephen King
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2009-01-20
• ISBN : 9781416592365

A collection of five short stories that have been made into movies includes "The Mangler," in which a skeptical writer investigates a supposedly haunted hotel room that has apparently caused at least forty-two deaths.

• Author : Mark Dawidziak
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2019-09-01
• ISBN : 9781493040995

A 25th anniversary history and celebration of The Shawshank Redemption, one of the most cherished American films of the late twentieth century and one of the finest movies made from a Stephen King story. The movie not only boasts a great story, it has a great backstory, starting with the dollar deal that eventually led King and co-stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman to put their trust in a largely untested director making his first feature film. Although the film

• Author : T. Magistrale
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2008-02-04
• ISBN : 9780230610583

The Films of Stephen King is the first collection of essays assembled on the cinematic adaptations of Stephen King. The individual chapters, written by cinema, television, and cultural studies scholars, examine the most important films from the King canon, from Carrie to The Shining to The Shawshank Redemption.

• Author : Stephen King
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2001-01-01
• ISBN : 555944121X

A man convicted of murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings.

• Author : Maura Grady,Tony Magistrale
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2016-11-11
• ISBN : 9781137531650

This book features an in-depth analysis of the world’s most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy’s poster art as cross-gendered signifiers. In addition to exploring the film and novella from which it was adapted, this book also traces the history of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio,

• Author : Madeline Miller
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release Date : 2013-07-04
• ISBN : 9781408848142

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. **Featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified.

• Author : Mark Kermode
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release Date : 2019-07-25
• ISBN : 9781839020551

How did a low-key prison movie which was considered a box-office flop on its original release become one of the most popular movies of all time? Mark Kermode traces the history of this unexpected audience favourite from the pages of Stephen King's novella 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption', through the icy corridors of Ohio's Mansfield Reformatory (whose imposing gothic architecture dominates the film), to the television and video screens on which 'The Shawshank Redemption' became a phenomenon. This study traces

• Author : Stephen King
• Publisher : Longman
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : 0582418135

There is a strange men's club in New York where all the members tell each other stories and where no-one looks older, no matter how many years have passed. One night a doctor tells the story of a young woman who gives birth to a baby in the most horrible way.

• Author : Robin Furth
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2012-11-06
• ISBN : 9781451695045

The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba The Dark Tower series is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Eight books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling fantasy epic. The Complete Concordance is an entertaining and incredibly useful guide to Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series, covering books I-VII and The Wind Through the Keyhole, and is the definitive encyclopedic reference book that provides readers with everything

• Author : Stephen King,Robin Waterfield
• Publisher : Longman
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : 0582418178

In 1960s America, four young boys go on a journey to search for the body of a boy killed by a train. As they travel, they discover how cruel the world can be, but also how wondrous.

• Author : Stephen King
• Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
• Release Date : 2021-03-02
• ISBN : 9781789096507

“Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” —The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret,

• Author : E. S. Barrison
• Publisher : Life & Death Cycle
• Release Date : 2021-08-22
• ISBN : 1734367059

The mist has thickened with a vendetta. A bounty has been offered for answers. And no one's story is safe. It's been six months since the Storm of Nightmares and Bria has not gone home. With wanted signs plastered throughout Rosada, she has been stuck chasing the so-called Story Collector throughout the Independent City of Mert. Yet, when a break-in occurs in Todd Dray's shop, it unleashes a chain of events that sends the city into disarray. With his mind

• Author : Dwayne Alexander Smith
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2015-07-07
• ISBN : 9781476730547

Befriended by some of America's most successful and wealthy black men, a talented African-American lawyer working out of a Queens storefront accepts their invitation to a weekend getaway only to learn that they are part of a secret organization that would promote white slavery. A first novel.