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Description
Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant... read more
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“Because the atoms we work with our hands, on Earth, are pitiful; the atomic bomb is pitiful and small and our knowledge is pitiful and small, and only the sun really knows what we want to know, and only the sun has the secret.”
Captain
First Sentence
Out there in the cold water, far from land, we waited every night for the coming of the fog, and it came, and we oiled the brass machinery and lit the fog light up in the stone tower.
Table of Contents
1 The Fog Horn
2 The Pedestrian
3 The April Witch
4 The Wilderness
5 The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
6 Invisible Boy
7 The Flying Machine
8 The Murderer
9 The Golen Kite, The Silver Wind
10 I See You Never
11 Embroidery
12 The Big Black and White Game
13 A Sound of Thunder
14 The Great Wide World Over There
15 Powerhouse
16 En La Noche
17 Sun and Shadow
18 The Meadow
19 The Garbage Collector
20 The Great Fire
21 Hail and Farewell
22 The Golden Apples of the Sun
Authors & Contributors
- Ray Bradbury (Author)
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