Misery (Penguin Readers Level 6)

Paul Sheldon writes romance novels about a heroine named Misery Chastain, and they sell in huge numbers. After his car crashes on a snowbound road, a former nurse named Annie Wilkes pulls him from the wreck. She tells him she is his number one fan.

Annie is far from pleased with him. In his latest book, Paul has killed Misery off, and Annie has read it.

Robin Waterfield adapts Stephen King's Misery here as a simplified retelling for Penguin Readers, at Level 6. That level is advanced, at around 3,000 headwords. The text runs to roughly ninety pages and is aimed at people learning English, so it works as a graded reader and not as an edition of the full novel.

The story itself is King's. Anyone who wants the original 1987 novel should look under its own Misery listing in the catalogue. This listing covers the graded reader, brought out by Longman and later by Pearson.