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The Stand by Stephen King is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Stand about?

Amazon.com ReviewIn 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil."I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our

Who reads The Stand?

Author

Stephen King

Publisher

Anchor Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385199575

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

4.34 / 5 (2,085 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13