Misery's Return is the novel that Annie WiIkes forced Paul Sheldon to write in the novel, Misery, and in the movie. In the book, he pretends to burn it when it is done before killing Annie in a struggle, actually keeping it and eventually getting it published. He is told it will be his masterpiece. In the film, he burns the actual book instead of a fake, and after Annie's death he instead writes and has published a new non-Misery novel, The Higher Education of J. Philip Stone, which he says he wrote for himself.