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Stephen King: The Green Mile
Foreword: A Letter
The Green Mile Part One: The Two Dead Girls
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The Green Mile Part Two: The Mouse on the Mile
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The Green Mile Part Three: Coffey's Hands
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The Green Mile Part Four: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
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The Green Mile Part Five: Night Journey
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The Green Mile Part Six: Coffey on the Mile
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Author's Afterword
Stephen King: The Green Mile
ELECTRONIC VERSION (Mar 29 00). If you find and correct errors in the text, please update the version
number by and redistribute.
Foreword: A Letter
Dear Constant Reader,
Life is a capricious business. The story which begins in this little book exists in this form because of a
chance remark made by a realtor I have never met. This happened a year ago, on Long Island. Ralph
Vicinanza, a long-time friend and business associate of mine (what he does mostly is to sell foreign
publishing rights for books and stories), had just rented a house there. The realtor remarked that the
house "looked like something out of a story by Charles Dickens."
The remark was still on Ralph's mind when he ed his first houseguest, British publisher Malcolm
Edwards. He repeated it to Edwards, and they began chatting about Dickens. Edwards mentioned that
Dickens had published many of his novels in installments, either folded into magazines or by themselves
as chapbooks, (I don't know the origin of this word, meaning a smaller-than-average book, but have
always loved its air of intimacy and friendliness). Some of the novels, Edwards added, were actually
written and revised in the shadow of publication; Charles Dickens was one novelist apparently not afraid
of a deadline.
Dickens's serialized novels were immensely popul