Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy Box Set
The surprise publishing phenomenon of the decade, Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy really has taken the world by storm. Ostensibly a crime novel, Larsson's dark tale weaves layer after later of suspense and mystery together to create a spellbinding and unique saga that lays bare some of the most disturbing elements of the human psyche while still being a riveting page-turner.
This deluxe Millennium Trilogy box set contains not only all three Millennium novels in matching hardback editions – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest – but also a companion book entitled Afterword, which includes essays by Larsson's publisher and critic John-Henri Holmberg , a collection of emails between Larsson and Eva Gedin, and also a selection of maps and photographs of locations featured in the trilogy.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy opens with the sometimes disturbing but always engaging Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The disappearance of the wealthy heiress Harriet Vanger four decades ago is the impetus that kicks off this tightly-plotted tale of murder, lust and romance, giving readers their first introduction to the characters of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, the two main protagonists who hold the entire trilogy together.
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Lisbeth looks to be in trouble when two reporters working on a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking ring are found murdered and her fingerprints are found on the murder weapon. So begins a desperate race against time for Mikael as he struggles to clear her name, and for Lisbeth herself as she is forced to confront the dark shadows from her past.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
The final novel in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest begins with Lisbeth critically wounded in hospital, fighting for her life with a bullet wound to the head. Determined no to succumb to the status of victim despite the violence perpetrated against her, she will have to summon all of her remarkable talents to fight back against the powerful figures who have targeted her and see her own brand of justice served.
The Millennium Trilogy Movie Adaptations
Such was the success of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy in his native Sweden that the film right for all three books were quickly snapped up by film studios. The movie trilogy was originally intended to open with an adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which would be shown in cinemas, then continued with TV movies of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. However, the first film proved so popular that in the end all three novels were made into full-release cinema versions, which were released to much critical acclaim in 2009.
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Fans of the series will be pleased to hear that Hollywood also has film versions of The Millennium Trilogy in the pipeline, with David Fincher (Seven, Zodiac) directing and Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace, Layer Cake) as Mikael and Rooney Mara (The Social Network) as Lisbeth.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is due for release in December 2011, with The Girl Who Played with Fire coming out in 2012 and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest hitting cinema screens in 2013.
Stieg Larsson: About the Author
Born in 1954, Stieg Larsson worked for the majority of his life as an investigative journalist who specialised in researching and campaigning against extreme right-wing race hate groups in his native Sweden.
At the age of 15, he reportedly witnessed the rape of a young girl in an attack which he was powerless to prevent. This event had a profound effect on Larsson, and led to his lifelong campaign to actively fight against oppression and violence and speak out for those who had no voice themselves.
The Millennium Trilogy was originally intended by Larsson to be a sequence of ten books – sadly, however, the author was struck down by a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 50, before the first novel in the series had been published.
Rumours abound that there may have been one or perhaps even two unfinished Millennium manuscripts found in Larsson’s personal effects after his death. No formal announcements have yet been made by his estate, and, because Larsson died without leaving a will, it could be some time before any new material is released.
