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Carrie (1974)

by Stephen King

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Fiction. Horror. Literature. Thriller. An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.
25 alternates | English | Primary description for language | score: 150
Fiction. Horror. Literature. Thriller. HTML:Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers 
 
"Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." —Chicago Tribune
 
Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
48 alternates | English | score: 139
Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget.
19 alternates | English | score: 101
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
2 alternates | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 89
In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. Her fanatical mother forbade this sixteen-year-old misfit everything that was young and fun. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone. But Carrie had a secret: she posessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling bizarre, and malevolent things happen. And so she did one night, when feeling scorned and humiliated, and growing angrier and angrier, she became the vengeful demon who let the whole town feel her power.
11 alternates | English | score: 62
An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.
4 alternates | English | score: 60
In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. This sixteen-year-old misfit was forbidden everything that was young and fun by her fanatical mother. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone. But Carrie had a secret: She possessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling bizarre, and malevolent things happen.
1 alternate | English | score: 46
Presents the unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young girl with supernatural powers of telekinesis.
2 alternates | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 42
Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie, the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her.
7 alternates | English | score: 39
Fiction. Horror. Literature. Thriller. HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD •  Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers • In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon of horror.
"Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever. Fifty years later, authors say it’s still challenging and guiding the genre."  —Esquire

 
“A master storyteller.” —The Los Angeles Times • “Guaranteed to chill you.” —The New York Times • "Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." —Chicago Tribune
 
Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
3 alternates | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 24
Fiction. Horror. Literature. "A master storyteller.". "Guaranteed to chill you.". "Gory and horrifying.... You can't put it down.". "[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.". "Eerie and haunting--sheer terror!". "Shivering, shuddery, macabre evil!". "Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . he's the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.". "Peerless imagination.". HTML:

NEWLY ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN, STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ AND JULIANNE MOORE. COMING TO MOVIE THEATERS EVERYWHERE OCTOBER 2013.

Stephen King's legendary debut novel about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.

Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be normal and go to her senior prom. But another act--of ferocious cruelty--turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget

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1 alternate | English | score: 23
Carrie, teased by classmates and extremely limited and ridiculed by her mother, has a terrifying secret. When Carrie is pushed to the edge, she reveals her secret in a devastating finale.
1 alternate | English | score: 17
A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time. Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is - Carrie.
7 alternates | English | score: 16
When Carrie is humiliated at her senior prom, she unleashes her secret power of telekinesis.
2 alternates | English | score: 13
NEWLY ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN, STARRING CHLOE GRACE MORETZ AND JULIANNE MOORE. COMING TO MOVIE THEATERS EVERYWHERE OCTOBER 2013.Stephen King's legendary debut novel about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be normal and go to her senior prom. But another act--of ferocious cruelty--turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget
6 alternates | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 12
Carrie, the odd one out at school and the continual butt of cruel jokes, finally found her gift, and with it came cataclysmic repercussions.
English | score: 12
Carrie has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to prom night by Tommy is a dream - the first step to social acceptance. But events take a turn on that night as Carrie is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 9
Unaware that she possesses a terrifying power, Carrie White creates much destruction in a small, quiet New England town.
2 alternates | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 7
Carrie, a shy highschooler with growing telekinetic powers, is abused by her classmates and her religiously fanatical mother. After being the brunt of a joke at the Senior Prom, Carrie uses her telekinetic powers to destroy her classmates and her mother.
3 alternates | English | score: 6
Carrie, an odd girl who is ostracized at school, has the power of telekinesis and after being harassed by her fellow students begins to exact revenge with violence.
2 alternates | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 6
Since the publication of Carrie in 1974, neither misfit Carrie White nor her catastrophic high school prom have been forgotten. This trade edition of the classic which launched King's career features a new Introduction.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 6
Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates, is a Classic. CARRIE is the novel which set him on the road to the Number One bestselling author King is today. Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her . . .
English | score: 4
The story of misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Repressed by a domineering, ultra-religious mother and tormented by her peers at school, her efforts to fit in lead to a dramatic confrontation during the senior prom.
English | score: 4
#1 NEW YORK TIMES "Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever. Fifty years later, authors say it’s still challenging and guiding the genre." —Esquire “A master storyteller.” —The Los Angeles Times • Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
1 alternate | English | score: 4
Una preciosa edición en tapa dura de Carrie, la primera novela publicada de Stephen King, en el 50.º aniversario de su lanzamiento. Incluye un prólogo inédito de la autora Margaret Atwood. Puede que Carrie White no sea la chica más popular del instituto, pero tiene un poder único: es capaz de mover cosas con la mente. Las puertas se cierran. Las velas caen. Es su poder y su tragedia. Entonces, un acto de bondad, tan espontáneo como las constantes burlas de sus compañeros de clase, le ofrece a la joven la oportunidad de convertirse en alguien normal. Sin embargo, una inesperada crueldad transforma su don en un arma capaz de causaron un horror y una destrucción que nadie podrá olvidar jamás. «¿Sabes cuál es el regalo, mamá? Lo que siempre has querido. Las tinieblas». ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers * In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon of horror.   Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.   "Stephen King's first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever. Fifty years later, authors say it's still challenging and guiding the genre."  --Esquire   "A master storyteller." --The Los Angeles Times "Guaranteed to chill you." --The New York Times "Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." --Chicago Tribune
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 3
Story of a shy high school girl who discovers she has telekinetic powers and takes revenge on her tormentors.
1 alternate | English | score: 3
Carrie, an odd girl who has the power of telekinesis, is harrassed by her fellow students to the point of violence.
English | score: 3
A repressed teenager uses her telekinetic powers to avenge the cruel jokes of her classmates.
English | score: 3
First came the blood. Then came the power. Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her . . . Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates, is a perennial classic. CARRIE is the novel which set him on the road to the Number One bestselling author King is today.
English | score: 3
Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to the Prom by Tommy Ross is a dream come true, and a step towards social acceptance by her high school peers. But events take a macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night.
English | score: 3
The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, Her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge.
2 alternates | English | score: 3
The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.
1 alternate | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 2
Fiction. Horror. Literature. "A master storyteller.". "[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.". "Eerie and haunting--sheer terror!". "Shivering, shuddery, macabre evil!". HTML:

October 28, 2013
The original actress to play Carrie, Sissy Spacek, narrates this audio tie-in to the new film version of King’s classic novel. Her Academy Award-nominated performance in the 1976 motion picture made her the iconic image of the author’s young heroine whose terrifying telekinetic power is unleashed by the viciousness of ultra-mean teens and the insane demands of her fanatically religious mother. Here, while easily recreating the moods of that odd young girl, whose helpless confusion and despair eventually morph into childish delight in her talent for destruction, Spacek just as successfully takes on the personae of the small town’s other disparate residents. King’s fiction is constructed of dramatic sequences interspersed with documentary-like accounts of events leading up to Carrie’s horrific vengeance. The actress moves smoothly from the magazine, newspaper, and official reports to dramatic scenes. Teenagers (some down-to-earth, some unpleasantly arrogant) teachers, moms, matrons, cops, the town drunk—Spacek finds a voice for each of them. And those voices are so dramatically evoked that, if their speech carries a trace of her native Texas drawl in lieu of a Maine accent, no one, including the author, is likely to complain. King reads an introduction in which he describes the book’s origin, his concerns about writing his first novel, especially one told from a feminine perspective, and, finally, how it’s critical and popular success changed his life.

. HTML:Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.

Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget.
1 alternate | English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 2
Adolescencia, venganza y sangre, todo un hito en la literatura popular.   Carrie, una joven de apariencia insignificante, acosada por sus compañeras de instituto, vive con su madre, una fanática religiosa. Un día en las duchas, la primera menstruación de Carrie provoca las burlas de las demás chicas y desencadena una sucesión de hechos sobrenaturales y terroríficos. Con el instituto como epicentro de la trama, la pequeña ciudad de Chamberlain, Maine, verá cambiar el curso de su historia en manos de la aterradora adolescente.   Llevada al cine con un éxito absoluto de público y crítica, Carrie es la primera novela del maestro indiscutible del terror. King despliega en esta historia todo su potencial narrativo, construyendo un universo que no deja a ningún lector indiferente.   «Yo le daría el Premio Nobel a Stephen King». -Mariana Enríquez   «Un maestro de la narración». -Los Angeles Times   ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers   "Gory and horrifying...You can't put it down." --Chicago Tribune   Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over... but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
English | score: 2
Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors.
1 alternate | English | score: 2
Fiction. Horror. Literature. HTML:
"A master storyteller.". "Guaranteed to chill you.". HTML:"
"Gory and horrifying.... You can't put it down.". HTML:"
"[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.". "Eerie and haunting--sheer terror!". "Shivering, shuddery, macabre evil!". "Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . he's the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.". "Peerless imagination.". HTML:

An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.

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English | score: 2
Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal... until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget.
English | score: 1
Two terrifying tales of terror from Stephen King.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1
Chinese edition of Carrie by Stephen King. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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What can we say about Stephen King that hasn't already been said? He's one of the best-selling authors of all time and a living legend in the horror genre. King's classic tale of a high school outcast with paranormal powers is as fresh today as when it was first published in 1974.
English | score: 1
Carrie was the odd one at school; the one whose reflexes were always off in games, whose clothes never really fit, who never got the point of the joke. And so be became the joke, the brunt of teenaged cruelties that puzzled her as much as they wounded her.
English | score: 1
Carrie, unaware that she is possessed of a terrifying power, grows angrier and angrier and turns a New England town into a holocaust of destruction.
English | score: 1
King's #1 bestseller about a shy teenage girl who's bullied at school--but whose secret power allows her to exact revenge on her tormentors at prom.
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Special Features Exclusive To This Deluxe Special Edition: ¿ an introduction by Stephen King detailing why he wrote the book ¿ a lengthy afterword by Tabitha King discussing the book's unbridled exploration of adolescent terror, sexuality, and the unknown ¿ deluxe oversized design (7 inches X 10 inches) featuring two color interior printing as part of the page design ¿ printed on a heavy interior specialty paper stock that is much thicker than the paper in a normal trade edition ¿ epic wrap-around full-color dust jacket artwork by Tomislav Tikulin ¿ a different full-color dust jacket for the Artist Edition painted by Tomislav Tikulin ¿ six full-color interior paintings by Tomislav Tikulin ¿ interior artwork will be printed on a heavy glossy stock and tipped into the book ¿ high-quality embossed endpapers and fine bindings for all editions ¿ full-page reproduction of the telegram Doubleday editor Bill Thompson sent Stephen King to announce the publisher was buying the book ¿ extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the TENS OF MILLIONS of copies of this novel you've seen in bookstores over the last 40 years!
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Sus compañeros se burlan de ella, pero Carrie tiene un don. Puede mover cosas con su mente. Este es su poder y su gran problema. Pero aunque un acto de bondad, tan espontáneo como las burlas crueles de sus compañeros, le ofrece a Carrie la oportunidad de ser normal, una inesperada crueldad transforma su don en un arma de horror y destrucción.-- Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. This was her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be normal and go to her senior prom. But another act--of ferocious cruelty--turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget.--
English | score: 1
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.
English | score: 1
Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over .
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El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en la ciudad. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la vengaza. Esta novela fue llevado al cine con un inmenso éxito de público y critica. The chilling case of a young woman of insignificant appearance who transformed into a being of abnormal powers, spreading terror in the city. With a magical pulse to maintain the tension throughout the entire book, Stephen King narrates Carrie's tormented adolescence, and envelops us in an overwhelming atmosphere as the girl makes a series of discoveries until she reaches the terrible moment of revenge. This novel was made into a film with immense public and critical success.
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A high school wallflower with telekinetic powers terrorizes her sadistic classmates when they push her too far.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1
Carrie White is an awkward and unpopular high school teenager, bullied and beleaguered from all sides, who uses her burgeoning telekinetic powers to wreak vengeance on all who have teased or injured her. In her reading, Spacek reinhabits and reprises her film role as Carrie and impeccably voices all other characters as well.
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Carrie : Carrie White, a misfit and bullied high school girl, uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who tormented her.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1
A shy and repressed teenager takes revenge on classmates who have persecuted her, transforming her small town into a holocaust of destruction.
English | score: 1
Carrie is humiliated at her senior prom. In a fit of fury she unleashes her secret power.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1
A novel of a girl with a frightening power.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1
In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. But Carrie had a secret. She possessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move. Carrie could make all kinds of startling, bizarre, and malevolent things happen. And one night, feeling scorned, humiliated and angry, she became a vengeful demon who let the whole town feel her power.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1
Carrie was the odd one at school; the one whose reflexes were always off in games, whose clothes never really fit, who never got the point of a joke. And so she became the joke, the brunt of teenaged cruelties that puzzled her as much as they wounded her. There was hardly any comfort in playing her private game, because like so many things in Carrie's life, it was sinful. Or so her mother said. Carrie could make things move--by concentrating on them, by willing them to move. This was her game, her power, her sin, firmly repressed like everything else about Carrie. One act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious jokes of her classmates, offered Carrie a new look at herself the fateful night of her senior prom. But another act--of furious cruelty--forever changed things and turned her clandestine game in to a weapon of horror and destruction.
English | Description provided by Bowker | score: 1
With her extraordinary telekinetic powers and her violent rampage of revenge, this is the story of misfit Carrie White and her catastrophic high school prom.
English | score: 1
Story of a shy high school girl who discovers she has telekinetic powers and takes revenge on her tormentors. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.
English | score: 1
Carrie, ein dickes, hässliches Mädchen, wehrt sich gegen die dauernden Demütigungen auf eine ungewöhnliche Weise ...
English | score: 1
In the exciting build-up to publication of Stephen King's new mainstream novel, LISEY'S STORY, Hodder are launching their King Classics Campaign - starting with 6 of the most popular titles, CARRIE, THE SHINING, BAG OF BONES, CHRISTINE, THE STAND, MISERY. These titles will be published for the first time in B-format paperback, in a stunning new livery.
English | score: 1
NEWLY ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN, COMING TO MOVIE THEATERS EVERYWHERE MARCH 2013 Stephen King's legendary debut novel about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but sh
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Stephen King Carrie gelesen von Franziska Pigulla Als 3-jährige lässt sie einen Steinregen auf ihr Elternhaus niederregnen, weil ihre Mutter ihr in einem Anfall religiösem Wahns nach dem Leben trachtet. Als 16-jährige erlebt sie einen Augenblick tiefster Demütigung. Dann, auf dem Abschlussball der Schule, wird sie das Opfer eines bösen Streichs. Schmerz, Enttäuschung, Wut treiben sie zum Äußersten: Mit der schieren Krafte ihres Willens entfesselt sie ein Inferno, gegen das die Hölle der Garten Eden ist. Das ist Carrie - beseelt, besessen von einer unheimlichen Gabe mit ungeheurer Tragweite und furchtbaren Folgen.
4 alternates | German | Primary description for language | score: 63
Das (verfilmte) Psychodrama eines Mädchens, das als Opfer des religiösen Wahns ihrer Mutter und der Ablehnung durch ihre Mitschüler psychokinetische Fähigkeiten entwickelt. Kings 1. Welterfolg von 1974/75..
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Horror novel.
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Horor.
Czech | Primary description for language | score: 1
Carrie - en lille, tyk og bumset teenage-pige - kues hjemme af en religiøs mor og udsættes for grusom mobning i skolen. Carrie hævner sig ved at slippe sine frygtindgydende, telekinesiske kræfter løs i den lille amerikanske by.
Danish | Primary description for language | Description provided by Bowker | score: 7
Carrie White, dix-sept ans, solitaire, timide et pas vraiment jolie, vit un calvaire: elle est victime du fanatisme religieux de sa m re et des moqueries incessantes de ses camarades de classe. Sans compter ce don, cet trange pouvoir de d placer les objets distance, bien qu'elle le ma trise encore avec diffi cult ... Un jour, cependant, la chance para t lui sourire. Tommy Ross, le seul gar on qui semble la comprendre et l'aimer, l'invite au bal de printemps de l' cole. Une marque d'attention qu'elle n'aurait jamais esp r e, et peut- tre m me le signe d'un renouveau
French | Primary description for language | score: 1
Fiction. Horror. HTML:

Escucha el escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en toda la ciudad.

Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la venganza.

Carrie fue llevada al cine con un inmenso éxito de público y crítica.

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15 alternates | Spanish | Primary description for language | Description provided by Bowker | score: 61
Fiction. Horror. Literature. Thriller. HTML:

Ya puedes escuchar el escalofriante caso de Carrie, una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en toda la ciudad.

Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la venganza. Escucha su historia en audiolibro.

Carrie fue llevada al cine con un inmenso éxito de público y crítica.

Reseñas:
«Un libro que te encantará leer, por su lectura tan fácil, amena y que te mete de lleno en la historia. Por algo es el rey del terror».
Jennifer a través de Amazon

«Yo le daría el Premio Nobel a Stephen King».
Mariana Enriquez

«Un maestro de la narración».
Los Angeles Times

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3 alternates | Spanish | Description provided by Bowker | score: 7
Sus compañeros se burlan de ella, pero Carrie tiene un don. Puede mover cosas con su mente. Este es su poder y su gran problema. Pero aunque un acto de bondad, tan espontáneo como las burlas crueles de sus compañeros, le ofrece a Carrie la oportunidad de ser normal, una inesperada crueldad transforma su don en un arma de horror y destrucción. Con un pulso mágico que mantiene la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora hasta llegar a un terrible momento de venganza que nadie olvidará.
1 alternate | Spanish | score: 4
Carrie, una joven de apariencia insignificante, acosada por sus compañeras de instituto, vive con su madre, una fanática religiosa. Un día en las duchas, la primera menstruación de Carrie provoca las burlas de las demás chicas y desencadena una sucesión de hechos sobrenaturales y terroríficos. Con el instituto como epicentro de la trama, la pequeña ciudad de Chamberlain, Maine, verá cambiar el curso de su historia en manos de la aterradora adolescente. Llevada al cine con un éxito absoluto de público y crítica, Carrie es la primera novela del maestro indiscutible del terror. King despliega en esta historia todo su potencial narrativo, construyendo un universo que no deja a ningún lector indiferente.
Spanish | score: 2
Il romanzo racconta la storia di Carrie White, una liceale che vive in una piccola citt© del Maine con una madre ossessionata dalla religione. Goffa, solitaria, vittima dei tiri mancini dei suoi coetanei, Carrie scopre gradualmente di avere poteri telecinetici, poteri che si erano gi© manifestati all'et© di tre anni, dopo il primo choc della sua vita. Un giorno, l'innocente e beffeggiata Carrie user© il suo potere e sar© ovunque orrore, distruzione e morte.
Italian | Primary description for language | score: 2
Fra fr̜ste skoledag har de andre barna plaget Carrie. Hun skiller seg ut, et lett bytte for de andres hn̄ og forakt. Hun er ikke klar over at hun har overnaturlige krefter, men nr̄ hun blir sint kan hun flytte p ̄gjenstander ved kun ̄tenke p ̄det. Det hele kulminerer p ̄skoleballet, for igjen blir Carrie offer for en ondskapsfull spk̜. Denne gangen s ̄grotesk at den fr̄ de frykteligste fl̜ger
Norwegian | Primary description for language | score: 1
1. ed. en Vintage Espaänol.
Korean | Primary description for language | score: 1
Carrie
Portuguese | Primary description for language | score: 2
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Fiction.
Portuguese | score: 0
Book description
Stephen King's first published novel is a fantastic story for those curious high school readers and adults alike looking for a chill.  Young Carrie is an aloof girl with an overbearing mother, who ultimately turns the tables on those who poke fun at her with her telekinetic powers.  For those who may be reluctant readers, you can always tell kids that Stephen King always pushes the limits in scarring the wits out of you.  Here is the trailer to the acclaimed 1976 film adaptation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJe0iV...
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The mean girls tease her.
Uh-oh. Shouldn’t have picked on
Someone who’s psychic.
(Carnophile)
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