Many of the magical aspects have vanished from Mid-World, but traces remain as do relics from a technologically advanced society. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West but is also magical. In the story, Roland Deschain is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers and the last of the line of "Arthur Eld", his world's analogue of King Arthur.
1.1.1 Connections to King's other works.The series is referred to on King's website as his magnum opus. However, after revising The Gunslinger, "he is trying to decide how much he can rewrite." Stephen King saw The Dark Tower series as a first draft, initially planning to rewrite it to eliminate continuity errors. Tolkien's work.Ī film serving as a sequel to the events of The Dark Tower was released in August 2017. King's style of location names in the series, such as Mid-World, and his development of a unique language abstract to our own (High Speech), are also influenced by J. He identifies Clint Eastwood's " Man with No Name" character as one of the major inspirations for the protagonist, Roland Deschain. In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of The Gunslinger, King also identifies The Lord of the Rings, Arthurian legend, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as inspirations.
#The dark tower series audiobook full#
The series was chiefly inspired by the poem " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, whose full text was included in the final volume's appendix. In addition to the eight novels of the series proper that comprise 4,250 pages, many of King's other books relate to the story, introducing concepts and characters that come into play as the series progresses.
The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels. Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror, and Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical.
The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels and one short story written by American author Stephen King. Welcome to The Dark Tower.Michael Whelan, Phil Hale, Ned Dameron, Dave McKean, Jae Lee, Bernie Wrightson, Darrel Andersonĭark fantasy, science fiction, horror, Western The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. They want desperately to get back to the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters.Thus the audiobook opens, like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen King's imagination. Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where "walk-ins" have been often seen. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room - really a chamber of horrors - in Thunderclap's Fedic Station Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and 61st with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best.Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. The tale of Roland Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. All good things must come to an end, Constant Listener, and not even Stephen King can write a story that goes on forever.