The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Stephen King

Jan 2016 · The Dark Tower Book 1 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.

A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.

Inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” The Gunslinger is “a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center” (Milwaukee Sentinel). It is “brilliant and fresh…and will leave you panting for more” (Booklist).

Ratings and reviews

Still one of the best in the series, if not THE best, in my opinion. Maybe it's the nostalgia of the first book having led me to discover The Tower in the first place, but it's still VERY enjoyable to read, even the fourth time, which me and my daughter recently did while she was in the hospital. Thank you Stephen, for all the wonderful tales...

Not very exciting, but just enough to keep things interesting and moving for me. I've heard the series gets a lot better, so I'm anxious to keep reading. Cheers to book 2!

Just wanted to say : Thank you 4 making a lot of your books in Audio form. But only having 4-9 mins. to listen doesn't really give Us an in-site into that book to see if we like it or not. It to buy it or not. Hope that changes, especially if it's not a cheap Book or Audio Book to buy. I have seen this Movie. It was Good. Of course that's Stephen King & now I found out his son, Own King has helped on a few books. Keeping the Legacy of Stephen King going. I'm a writer too, had a few things published, but none if my Books as of yet. It's hard to not only Write & to Write Series Novels but it's also Hard to find a Publisher now a days. So still working on that. I'm over 40 yrs. old, so if I can just get one Book Published b4 its too late. One Dream will will be marked as Completed. My own 'Bucket List', I guess you could call it. And it's Not as Easy as a lot of people think. Sry 4 babbling. Anyway... KEEP UP the Great Work in your Writing & Movies. Can't want 4 the rest of the 'Dark Tower' movie Series to come out. And ALL your fans are hoping they do a long with other books too. Good Luck.

About the author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.