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The Long Walk

  • Stephen King

3.96

46 ratings

The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback.

Set in a future dystopian America, ruled by a totalitarian and militaristic dictator, the plot revolves around the contestants of a grueling, annual walking contest. In 2000, the American Library Association listed The Long Walk as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published between 1966 and 2000.


Also contained in:

  • The Bachman Books
  • The Bachman Books

Genres

  • Horror
  • Suspense
  • Fiction
  • dystopia
  • walking contests
  • totalitarianism
  • half-tracks
  • Horror tales
  • American literature
  • Fiction, general
  • Contests
  • Walking
  • Survival
  • Teenage boys
  • Teenage athletes
  • Fascism
  • Fiction, horror
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About the author

  • Stephen King

    born 21 September 1947

    4.03

    4280 ratings · 602 works

Editions

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    Suma

    13/01/2023

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    Hodder & Stoughton Limited

    2025

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    Sperling & Kupfer

    Nov 07, 2013

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    Independente

    2000

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Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO

Nov 05, 2020

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    Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO

    Nov 05, 2020

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    Pocket Books

    2024

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    Editorial Males Herbes, MALES HERBES

    Sep 23, 2020

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    Editorial Males Herbes, MALES HERBES

    Sep 23, 2020

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    France Loisirs

    1994

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    ed. 1

    Albin Michel

    2004-12

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    Gallery Books

    2018

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    First printing (with King introduction) (1)

    Signet

    1999-04

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    Signet

    February 1, 1979

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    Penguin USA, Inc.

    2009

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    First Printing (King Introduction), April 1999 (22)

    Turtleback

    2004?

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    Signet

    July 3, 1979

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    Martínez Roca

    March 1986

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    Ullstein

    2008

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    Albin Michel

    January 1, 2000

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    Heyne

    1987

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    Pocket Books

    2016

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    Prószyński i S-ka

    2008

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    Wydawnictwo Prószyński i S-ka

    2011

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    Turtleback

    Apr 19, 2016

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    Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO

    Jul 18, 2018

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    Éditions J'ai Lu

    1998-03-20

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    Poema Pocket

    2000

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    Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio

    Feb 18, 2020

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    Scribner

    2016

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    2016

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    First Gallery Books trade paperback edition February 2016.

    Gallery Books

    2016

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    Paperback edition.

    New English Library

    1980

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    Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.

    February 1998

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    2022

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    AST

    2004

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    AST

    1999