The Green Mile (1996) is a serial novel by Stephen King, later republished with all six volumes in a trade paperback.
More or less as a challenge, Stephen King published this story as a serial in six parts. Just as in Charles Dickens'
time, the story was crafted while the book was already in production.
In keeping with the serial concept, the first edition consists of six
thin, low-priced paperbacks.
Since it first appeared, The Green Mile has been republished
as a single volume. The first edition contains a section where the
narrator speaks directly to the reader; the later edition contains an
additional foreword. The novel was left otherwise untouched, though
King did change one passage where a character in a straitjacket wipes
his brow (a mistake that initially slipped past both him and his
editor). The novel won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1996.
The novel was adapted by Frank Darabont for the screenplay of a feature film of the same name in 1999, directed by Darabont, starring Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecombe and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey.
