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An edition of The Waste Lands (1991)

The Dark Tower III

The Waste Lands

printing (16)

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  • ★★★★ 4.16 ·
  • 73 Ratings
  • 252 Want to read
  • 20 Currently reading
  • 116 Have read

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King's most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.
--back cover

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New English Library
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English

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Subjects
thrillers, supernatural, dark fantasy, riddles, monorails, artificial intelligence, Velcro Fly, paradoxes, ka-tet, cyborgs, Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fantasy, Dark Tower Series, Roland (Fictitious character : King), Fiction, fantasy, epic, Dark tower (imaginary place), fiction, Roland (fictitious character : king), fiction, American literature, Roland of Gilead (Fictitious character), Fantastic fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Time travel, Magic, Voyages dans le temps, Romans, nouvelles, Chang pian xiao shuo
People
Roland (Fictitious character : King), Roland (Fictitious character), Roland of Gilead (Fictitious character), Eddie Dean, Shardik, Ageless Stranger, Man in Black, Blaine the Mono, Gasher, Tick-Tock-Man, ZZ Top, Oy, Jake Chambers, Jack Mort, Susannah Dean, Roland Deschain
Places
Dark Tower, Lud, New York City, Mid-world, Western Sea, Out-World, Dutch Hill, River Crossing, George Washington Bridge, Topeka, mei guo
Times
1977, xian dai

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Huang yuan: Waste lands
2006, Ren min wen xue chu ban she
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The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
2003-09, Signet
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The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
2003-09, Signet
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The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
2002?, New English Library
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Besplodnye zemli: roman
1999, Izd-vo AST
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La tour sombre: Terres perdues
1998-03, Editions 84
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The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower III
1997?, Plume
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Der dunkle Turm: Tot
1995, Heyne
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Las Tierras Baldias
1994-04, Ediciones B
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1993-01, Signet
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First Sentence

"The Waste Lands is the third volume of a longer tale inspired by and to some degree dependent upon Robert Browning's narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.""

Edition Notes

Originally published: U.S.: Donald M. Grant, 1991; London: Sphere, 1992.
UK

Series
Dark Tower (3)
Copyright Date
1991

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xvi, 584 p. :
Dimensions
7.6 x 5.1 x 1.6 inches
Weight
14.9 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9624437M
Internet Archive
wastelands0000king
ISBN 10
034082977X
ISBN 13
9780340829776
OCLC/WorldCat
474620717
Amazon ID (ASIN)
034082977X
Google
Yi9CPgAACAAJ
Library Thing
3428
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55976710

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Part III of an epic saga. Roland and his companions, Eddie and Susannah Dean, find the Path of the Beam that will lead them to the Dark Tower. Along the way, Roland adds two new members to his ka-tet (a group united for a specific purpose). In the decaying city of Lud, they encounter new dangers, including a sentient train that has gone insane.

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The Waste Lands is the third volume of a longer tale inspired by and to some degree dependent upon Robert Browning's narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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