The Long Walk (novel)
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The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian alternative version of the United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, the plot follows the contestants of a grueling annual walking contest. While not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine, some eight years before his first published novel, Carrie, was released in 1974. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardcover. In 2023, Centipede Press released the first stand-alone hardcover edition. In 2000, the American Library Association listed The Long Walk as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published between 1966 and 2000.
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| Order | Last name | First name | Number | Reason for elimination |
| 1 | Curley | Unknown | 7 | Charley horse in his leg |
| 2 | Ewing | 9 | Blisters | |
| 3 | Unknown | Slowed down too much | ||
| 4 | Zuck | Unknown | 100 | Bleeding from a cut on the knee |
| 5 | Travin | Unknown | Had diarrhea | |
| 6 | Fenter | Unknown | 12 | Had cramps |
| 7 | Larson | 60 | Sat down | |
| 8 | Unknown | |||
| 9 | Toland | Unknown | Fainted | |
| 10 | Quincy/Quentin(?) | Unknown | ||
| 11–12 | Unknown | |||
| 13 | Baker | James | 4 | Unknown |
| 14 | Rank | Unknown | Fight with Barkovitch | |
| 15 | Unknown | |||
| 16 | Unknown | Attempt to flee | ||
| 17 | Unknown | 45 | Fall | |
| 18–24 | Unknown | |||
| 25 | Davidson | Unknown | 8 | Unknown |
| 26 | Unknown | |||
| 27 | ||||
| 28 | Yannick | Unknown | 98 | Unknown |
| 29 | Unknown | Convulsions | ||
| 30 | Gribble | Unknown | 48 | Stopped due to cramps |
| 31 | Harkness | 49 | Fatigue | |
| 32 | Unknown | Percy | 31 | Attempt to flee |
| 33 | Unknown | |||
| 34 | ||||
| 35 | Wayne | Unknown | 94 | Unknown |
| 36 | Unknown | |||
| 37 | Morgan | Frank | 64 | Unknown |
| 38 | Unknown | |||
| 39 | Unknown | 38 | Foot run over by half-track | |
| 40 | Unknown | |||
| 41 | Tressler | Unknown | 92 | Sun stroke |
| 42 | Unknown | Convulsions | ||
| 43 | Aaronson | Unknown | 1 | Had cramps |
| 44 | Unknown | Sun stroke | ||
| 45 | Unknown | |||
| 46 | ||||
| 47 | ||||
| 48 | Jensen | Unknown | Panicked during thunderstorm | |
| 49 | Unknown | Fainted | ||
| 50 | Fenum | Roger | 13 | |
| 51 | Unknown | |||
| 52 | ||||
| 53 | Olson | Hank | 70 | Attacked soldiers |
| 54 | Unknown | |||
| 55 | ||||
| 56 | ||||
References
- The deaths of different walkers are reported at the same time in the book, which does not allow the reader to know the e
- The death of the walker is not explicitly mentioned in the book and the author only refers to it indirectly.
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