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Description
Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Is this the Grand Canyon or your medulla oblongata?”
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“A dust storm of sorts will sneeze across the world and our Family will be no more. Destroyed by a single phrase which, if listened to and leaned on, simply says: you do not exist, you did not exist, you never were.”
First Sentence
In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, A Thousand Times Great Grandmere existed.
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Beautiful One is Here
Chapter 1: The Town and the Place
Chapter 2: Anuba Arrives
Chapter 3: The High Attic
Chapter 4: The Sleeper and Her Dreams
Chapter 5: The Wandering Witch
Chapter 6: Whence Timothy?
Chapter 7: The House, The Spider, and the Child
Chapter 8: Mouse, Far-Traveling
Chapter 9: Homecoming
Chapter 10: West of October
Chapter 11: Many Returns
Chapter 12: On the Orient North
Chapter 13: Nostrum Paracelsius Crook
Chapter 14: The October People
Chapter 15: Uncle Einar
Chapter 16: The Whisperers
Chapter 17: The Theban Voice
Chapter 18: Make Haste to Live
Chapter 19: The Chimney Sweeps
Chapter 20: The Traveler
Chapter 21: Return to the Dust
Chapter 22: The One Who Remembers
Chapter 23: The Gift
Afterword: How the Family Gathered
Authors & Contributors
- Ray Bradbury (Author)
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