title: The Dark Tower 8-Book Boxed Set
author:  Stephen King 
description: Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.&nbsp;His recent work includes <i>The Outsider</i>,&nbsp;<i>Sleeping Beauties</i>&nbsp;(cowritten with his son Owen King), the Bill Hodges trilogy<i> End of Watch</i>, <i>Finders&nbsp;Keepers</i>,&nbsp;and <i>Mr. Mercedes</i>&nbsp;(an Edgar Award winner&nbsp;for Best Novel and an AT&amp;T Audience Network original television series). His novel&nbsp;<i>11/22/63</i> was named a&nbsp;top ten book of 2011 by&nbsp;<i>The&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;Book Review</i>&nbsp;and won the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times&nbsp;Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works&nbsp;<i>The Dark Tower</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>It</i>&nbsp;are the basis for&nbsp;major motion pictures, with <i>It </i>now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient&nbsp;of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the&nbsp;2014 National Medal of Arts, and the&nbsp;2003 National Book Foundation Medal for&nbsp;Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.&nbsp;He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife,&nbsp;novelist Tabitha King.
zlib_text: THE DARK TOWER IV
   
  STEPHEN
   
  KING
   
  wizard and glass
   
  ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVE MCKEAN 
  
  A PLUME BOOK
   
  PLUME 
  Published by the Penguin Group
   
  Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, 
   
  London W8 5TZ, England
   
  Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
   
  Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 
   
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  Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
   
  Published by Plume, an imprint of Dutton Signet,
   
  a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.
   
  A limited hardcover edition was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., Hampton Falls, NH.
   
  First Plume Printing, November, 1997 10 987654321
   
  Copyright © Stephen King, 1997
   
  Illustrations copyright © Dave McKean, 1997
   
  All rights reserved
   
  acknowledgments
   
  The lyrics from "The Green Door," words by Marvin Moore, music by Bob Davis