Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. Having also published work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King's first horror novel, Carrie, was a huge success. Over the years, King has become known for titles that are both commercially successful and sometimes critically acclaimed. His books have sold more than 350 million copies worldwide and been adapted into numerous successful films. In Wizard and Glass, Roland Deschain, Eddie and Susannah Dean, Jake Chambers, and Oy the billy-bumbler have escaped the ruined city of Lud on Blaine the Mono. Unfortunately, Blaine is planning to derail himself at the end of the line in Topeka. Roland challenges him to a riddling contest, and if they win, they get to keep their lives. Eddie keeps asking silly, nonsensical riddles until Blaine's circuits are fried and his power gives out. The gunslingers arrive in Topeka, Kansas but find it deserted. They realize this world is similar but different from their own. Roland tells his friends a story of his youth after he became a gunslinger. He travels with his friends Cuthbert Allgood and Alain Johns to Hambry, a town in the Barony of the Mejis. They discover the mayor and ranchers of the town are working with the rebel John Farson, as well as three men known as the Big Coffin Hunters. You can listen online to free English audiobook “Wizard and Glass” by Stephen King on our website.
