Misery is a novel by Stephen King, written in 1987. the story begins sustaining Paul Sheldon slowly wakeful away from a coma. Step by step, his memory is restored to him: he occurs as wildly popular romance novelist (a independent character of which is known as Misery Chastain) world health organization has crashed his car inside the wintertime storm & has been badly hurt. His rescuer, Annie Wilkes, is a trained nurse & has taken him to her secluded united states house to become cared for by her personally. Luckily, Annie is Paul's "number one fan" & thirstily awaits completely his publications. When instance lives, yet, Paul understands that there is the insolent side of the coin too: Annie is psychotic, & when he might discover late, she has a violent felon preceding. He number 1 becomes caring of this whilst Annie begs him to let her understand his latest Misery, at a prevent of which Misery dies. Paul numbers he owes it to her for saving his life, however once she finds retired that he intends to stamp out "her Misery" she goes nutty, hobbles Paul's legs sustaining an ax thus he potty't leave, & forces him to rewrite a book. A remainder of the book is caring by owning how else he handles her insanity & in time escapes captivity.

King has stated that he meant for Misery to become a next Richard Bachman novel, following Thinner.

Inside On Writing, he realized that the situation of the novel was the metaphor for the drug addiction he was suffering from at a instance.

the novel was adapted into a screenplay for a 1990 American film of the same title, directed by Rob Reiner. James Caan and Kathy Bates star as Paul & Annie, severally. Richard Farnsworth also appears. the film was the critical & commercial profits, making $61,276,872 (America) domestically in a $20,000,000 budget. Kathy Bates won a Academy Award for Best Actress: she thereafter vaulted into a number one rank of Hollywood actresses.

Annie Wilkes was voted a Seventeenth greatest villain of 100%-instance per American Film Institute in their special feature AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains and Bravo! named the film the 12th scariest of all time.

A book attached by having the Robert R. McCammon novel Swan Song for the first Bram Stoker Award for best novel.

ISBNs
ISBN 0606038590 (prebound, 1987) ISBN 0670813648 (cloth text, 1987) ISBN 0451169522 (mass market paperback, 1988) ISBN 8401499976 (hardcover, 1992) ISBN 0573018502 (hardback, 1999) ISBN 074323359X (mass market paper-back book, 2002) ISBN 0786250208 (laminated, 2003)