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Flagg, el mago del rey Roland, quiere gobernar el país manipulando a los príncipes, pero el heredero al trono es Peter, un joven muy influenciado por la bondad de su madre Sasha (quien tiempo atrás asesinó Flagg sin que nadie se enterara). Flagg mata al rey Roland y culpa a Peter, quien es encerrado de por vida en la Torre de la Aguja. Tras cinco años de prisión, Dennis, Ben Staad y Naomi intentarán liberar al príncipe Peter, pero Flagg luchará contra ellos y un príncipe Thomas hará una aparición magistral en el último momento.

382 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 2,1987

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382 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published
September 1, 1995 by Solaris
ISBN
9788401499951
ASIN
840149995X
Language
Spanish; Castilian
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    Randall Flagg

    Randall Flagg, also known as "the Dark Man" or "the Walkin Dude", is the main antagonist of The Stand. More (or less) than a man, he is the embodiment of evil, an antichrist-like being whose goal is destruction and death. In the novel, he is presented as ...

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Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.

He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

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SpiritualWolf
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April 17,2025
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Probably King’s most atypical novel. A fairytale-style story about two brothers disputing over the throne in a vague Kingdom where the power is manipulated byt the evil wizard Flagg. Not much reminds us that we are reading a book by Stephen King here. There’s Flagg, who is the most memorable part of this book, and then there are of course those boogers… It is told by a narrator from our time which at times feels a bit askew. The story has some nuance and atmosphere. Some parts hold together well, other parts feel jumbled and sketchy. I liked the dollhouse and the bit where the children play pretend games where ”indians” attacks the castle, a detail that throws the whole European fairytale thing off balance, in a good way.
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Asunnie
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April 17,2025
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I finally read my first Stephen King novel. I really liked it. I’m not a huge horror fan so I felt this fantasy was a good choice. I couldn’t put the book down. This book was from the 1980s so I doubt there will be a sequel but the ending opened up the possibility. I will definitely read more Stephen King. Perhaps my next King book will be Fairy Tale.
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lariescat
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April 17,2025
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3.75

I didn't really like this the first time I read it a few years ago. I thought it was largely forgettable and one of my least favourite Stephen King novels.

This time around I really liked it. It was intriguing reading about Flagg having now started on The Dark Tower novels. This book helped to fill in a little of his back story

Finished in one sitting and rounded up to 4*
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Eric-romance
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April 17,2025
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I so thoroughly enjoyed reading this book! Such a fun and exciting book to read during a time when the whole Western world seems to be descending into chaos … I was able to forget about inflation, war, climate change, and pretend I was a little kid again adrift in a book with princes and royal treachery and an adorable huskie named Frisky …

This book had sort of a macabre “Princess Bride” vibe going … none of the romance, but that sense of my grandfather reading this modern fairy tale to me while I snuggled under my favorite quilt in bed … this book centers on Peter and Thomas, the two princes born to King Roland in the kingdom of Delain … Flagg, the demonic magician who is King Roland’s closest advisor, plots an assassination of the king, framing Peter, the heir to the throne, as King Roland’s killer … the rest of the story follows Peter and his friends as they try to free Peter and dethrone Thomas, now king of Delain, who is controlled by Flagg …

Typically, I don’t like “action-packed” entertainment - I like slow building plots with deep character development … but I was hypnotized by the quickly unfolding twists and turns of this novel … the story is told through brief - sometimes very brief - chapters, each one jabbing home sweet little tidbits of the story … Stephen King’s wit and dark sense of humor shine brilliantly throughout this book, and Flagg was the perfect villain to boo and hiss at …

I have a feeling I will be rereading this book again in the near future, for the sheer thrill of the roller coaster ride through the kingdom of Delain …
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Mayu-chan37
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April 17,2025
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The Eyes of the Dragon is in my book a kid’s fantasy tale and one with a merrily joyous feel good factor, it was all just too nice and goodly good for me. If my only way of escape was to fashion a rope out of strands of napkin, worked on a toy and it was going to take over a year, then I'd have thrown myself out of the tower on day 3, fuck it as they say and goodbye happy ending.
 
Flagg is the man in black, the evil magician who's been around for ever, changing faces and involving himself in the running of the kingdom of Delain for generations. He poisons the King and sets eldest son Peter up for the fall. A lifetimes imprisonment in the tower and then it's youngest son Thomas who takes over, subtly prodded by our man in black.
 
Peter is of course a lovely lad who everyone believes is guilty except a few friends, so he sets out to escape using the threads of many napkins tailored into rope, worked on a tiny loom or whatever it was and aaaaaaaah!!!! thunk.
 
Oh noooo, he's had enough after three weeks and chucked himself out, three hundred foot to the cobbles below. Ah fuck I was just getting into that and he's blown the ending, every goody fantasy trope blown to the wind all from a disappointing lack of endurance. Boys and dolls houses never end well, Oh well surprises all round there, totally unexpected and I have to say, well played.
 
Truth? Of course not, it all ends exactly as expected in a well written tale of loveliness.

A 2.5* rating.

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Freeze_Ray
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April 17,2025
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3.5

Something a little different from Mr King— a straightforward fairy tale set in a kingdom of another time and place.

Charming and a great bed time take for older elementary kids, I enjoyed the tale. Old King. Two princes. Evil magician.

Unfortunately, about a 100 pages too long and not nearly as creative a storyline as I’ve come to expect from the master of storytelling.

I’m considering it a solid primer for his Fairy Tale novel, which I hope is darker and more complicated than this tale.

Final note- I was very intrigued that the evil magician’s name was Flagg. I love King’s connectivity!
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Sundae
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April 17,2025
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"He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions--but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close."

It was hard to choose just one single quote to represent how I felt about this book but I have tried. The medieval them to this book was so enjoyable and each and every character was someone you either rooted for or hated. I fell in love with this book and I would read it over and over again.
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StevenKing
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April 17,2025
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The King is dead and his favoured, eldest son is imprisoned for his murder. Will the wrongfully accused boy manage to free himself and will his subjects believe his innocence if he does?

I found this a very accessible fantasy story. King does not dwell on particulars of the fictional kingdom but, instead, focuses on the mystery inside of it. Even this he approaches from an unusual angle, as the reader is privy to the real perpetrator very early on and spends much of the book waiting for justice to be delivered.

I thoroughly enjoyed both the story and how it was conveyed. It provided me with some straight-forward escapism, which did not require too much thought and instead allowed me to become immediately immersed in the story and remain gently carried along by its meandering trajectory.
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