《level 6 - Misery - Penguin Readers》.pdf

Misery He fried to turn over, as if he could get away from her, but his broken legs and drugged body refused to obey. Annie poured some of the liquid on to his left ankle and some more onto the blade of the axe. There wont be much pain, Paul. It wont be bad. Its no good screaming - no one can hear. And if you think things arc as bad as they can get, just listen to the morse. Paul Sheldon is a world-famous writer. On his way to deliver the typewritten pages of his latest book, he has an accident on a snow-covered road. When he wakes up , hes in bed . . . But its not a hospital bed. And though the woman who saved him is one of his greatest admirers, shes also danger- ously insane. And in her lonely country house, she has Paul, his legs badly broken and in extreme pain, completely in her power . When she learns what he has just done to Misery Chastain, her favourite character from his books, Paul knows hes in trouble, deep trouble . The one thing you dont do with Annic Wilkes is make her angry. She know s how to cause pain. The only question is, how much can a man stand? Stephen King is probably the most popular author now writ- ing. There are over 150 million copies of his novels in print and he makes $2 million a month from his books and the films of his books . He was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine, USA and became a full-time writer after his first novel, Carrie (1973), was sold for $400,000. Many of Kings books have been made into films. The screen version of Misery was one of the most popular films of 1990. Kathy Bates won an Oscar for playing Annie