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The green mile

Set in the deep South in the 1930's, this six-part horror story concerns a subject that has fascinated King for a long time. King's most provocative, compelling and memorable thriller yet.

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  • "Green mile"
  • "Bad death of Eduard Delacroix"
  • "Coffey's hand"
  • "Mouse on the mile"
  • "Two dead girls"
  • "Night journey"
  • "Coffey on the mile"

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  • "Unabridged."
  • "Set in the deep South in the 1930's, this six-part horror story concerns a subject that has fascinated King for a long time. King's most provocative, compelling and memorable thriller yet."@en
  • "Paul Edgecombe, the prison guard in charge of death row at Cold Mountain State Penitentiary, tells the story of John Coffey, a gentle giant convicted of murdering two sisters."@en
  • "These stories are told by an old prison guard as he looks back on happenings on death row a decade earlier."@en
  • "Horror fiction. At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. Guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being? There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine.In THE GREEN MILE, Stephen King builds the tension word by word and then delivers a revelation that will truly blow your mind."
  • "A killer is about to gain new insight into his life in prison and the one man who will walk him down that green mile toward destiny."@en
  • "Prison inmate John Coffey gains insight into himself and prison life when he meets the man who brutally murdered two sisters."
  • "The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932 and the story concerns its various inhabitants and "Old Sparky" the electric chair."
  • "The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932 and the story concerns its various inhabitants and "Old Sparky" the electric chair."@en
  • "Death-row supervisor Paul Edgecombe thinks back to 1932 when John Coffey is brought to the penitentiary and placed on the "Green Mile." Coffey is accused of the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. But Coffey seems to be an unusual kind of human being."@en
  • "A prison guard on death row is intrigued by the gentle black man waiting his turn in the electric chair for the murder of two young sisters in the deep South of the 1930s."
  • "Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the depression-worn men of E block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," the electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities, but he's never seen anyone like John Coffey."
  • "Released to tie in with the major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, this audiobook brings to life King's 1997 Bram Stoker Award-winning novel. Originally written as a series of six novellas, the story revolves around a guard's remembrances of the green corridor leading to the electric chair at a Southern prison in 1932."@en
  • "Here is this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs ... and yours."@en

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  • "Serialized fiction"
  • "CD"
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Horror tales"
  • "Horror tales"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Hörbuch"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Unabridged audiobook"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Audiobooks, Fiction"@en
  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Horror fiction"@en
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Talking books"
  • "Serialized fiction"@en

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  • "The green mile"
  • "The green mile"@en
  • "The green mile a serial thriller"
  • "The Green Mile"
  • "The Green Mile"@en
  • "The green mile [the complete serial novel]"
  • "The green mile [the complete serial novel]"@en
  • "The Green mile"@en
  • "David Nathan liest Stephen King: the green mile"
  • "The green mile the complete serial novel"@en
  • "The green mile the complete serial novel"
  • "The green mile (unabridged)"@en

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