The armed man

For three decades, Stephen King introduced readers to Roland Deschain, the dominant and mysterious "Roland" — an unforgettable character easily. A solitary man who went on a magical journey into the world of good and evil. He chose to live in his world free of any kindness. Roland pursues the man in the black cloak, meets a charming woman named "Alice," and a friendship develops between him and a boy from New York named "Jake." A strange world in which Roland and his friends roam makes reading this novel an unforgettable pleasure. This novel, "The Gunslinger," is the first part of the epic Dark Tower series that introduces readers to one of Stephen King's most mysterious heroes, Roland of Gilead: the last gunslinger. In the preface that opens the novel, Stephen addresses the reader: "... when I returned to the first part, which you hold in your hands now, three clear facts appeared before me. The first is that "The Gunslinger" was written by a young man, and he suffers from all kinds of problems that a young writer suffers from. The second fact is that it contains a large number of mistakes and wrong beginnings, especially in light of the subsequent parts. The third fact is that it even doesn't resemble the later parts — honestly, reading it was difficult. I often found myself forced to apologize for all that, and to tell others that if they persevere, they will find the story truly found itself in "The Three Doors." At some point in "The Gunslinger," Roland is described as one of those men who would straighten pictures in Western hotel rooms. I am personally from this type, and that is the goal of all those rewriting efforts: straighten the pictures, clean the floors, scrub the toilets. I have performed many household chores during this editing process, and I had the chance to do what any writer would want to do with a finished novel that still needs final polishing..." King concludes by saying: "... I wanted to tell a strange story. So if you find yourself falling in love with the "Dark Tower," even a little, I will consider that I have accomplished my mission, which began in 1970 and largely ended in 2003. But Roland will be the first to point out that such a long period of time doesn't mean much at all. In fact, when one seeks the "Dark Tower," time becomes completely irrelevant." It remains to note that the (Dark Tower series) consists of eight parts, completed by Stephen King in 2009. It will be published in its Arabic version by Dar Al-Arabiya Lil-Ilm Nashiroon, and this book is the first part of it.