The Shawshank Redemption Author: Stephen King Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

This book is Stephen King's most popular masterpiece, which includes his four novellas. As soon as the English version was released, it topped the New York Times bestseller list and sold 280,000 copies in the United States that year. This book has been translated into 31 languages, and three of the four novels have been adapted into blockbuster movies. The most talked-about one is The Shawshank Redemption, which has been nominated for seven Oscars and is hailed as one of the most perfect films in film history. This novel shows Stephen King's extraordinary skills beyond the thriller genre he is good at. The other two novels in the book, The Apprentice and The Body, have also won excellent reputations after being made into movies. Among them, The Body is also regarded as Stephen King's most autobiographical work.