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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Ah! I misread your message to imply that there was the condensed version of The Stand (the first version I read), the expanded edition and then perhaps an expanded edition that had some later revisions or something.
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Yes, the first version [1978] was, indeed, just a bit shorter. King mentions that the original edition -
as he originally wrote it before it was edited by Thompson - had some excess 'fat' trimmed from it, in addition to how it first begins. I can't remember how much material was restored (20,000 words ?), but it starts out (for example) in a completely different way.
The Stand,
now, is the complete and uncut edition.