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.
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  THE DARK TOWERIV
  
  
  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
  
  
  3B2Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand
  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, 199710 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