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Misery (Penguin Readers Level 6)

Misery (Penguin Readers Level 6)

Misery
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HorrorPsychological Thriller
Pages
96
Published
1994
Language
English

Synopsis

A simplified retelling of Stephen King's Misery, adapted by Robin Waterfield for Penguin Readers Level 6 (advanced, around 3,000 headwords). It runs to roughly ninety pages and is written for people learning English rather than as an edition of the novel.

The story is King's: Paul Sheldon writes bestselling romances about a heroine called Misery Chastain. After a car crash on a snowbound road he is rescued by Annie Wilkes, a former nurse who calls herself his number one fan, and who is not at all pleased that he has killed Misery off in his latest book.

Readers looking for the full 1987 novel want the separate Misery entry in the catalogue; this record is the graded reader, published by Longman and later Pearson.

Prose complexity
1/10

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TenseDarkCreepy

Genres

Horror Psychological Thriller

Authors

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Stephen King

Stephen King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author whose work has defined popular horror fiction for more than half a century. Born in Portland, Maine, he grew up in poverty after his father abandoned the family, and credits his mother's resilience and a voracious reading habit as the foundations of his imagination. He began selling short stories to men's magazines while working as a high school English teacher, and published his first novel, Carrie, in 1974—his wife Tabitha retrieved...

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