Bradbury, Ray

Summary: In Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires but start them--to burn books. It's a time when trivial information is valued and true knowledge perceived as dangerous and subversive. Guy Montag is a fireman with a wife who's goading him to work harder so they could afford another television set. When Montag befriends their neighbor Clarisse, whose love for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004

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Bradbury, Ray

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1990

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Four short stories and two poems featuring one of the author's great loves: dinosaurs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1983

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Bradbury, Ray

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: "On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door - and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soaked and shivering in his foyer, clutching two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear from something she dares not...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy....

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Bradbury scholar and biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers the first sustained look at Ray Bradbury's life in letters from his late teens to his ninth decade. Bradbury's correspondence was far-reaching--he interacted with a rich cross section of 20th-century cultural figures, writers, film directors, editors, and others who simply wanted insights or encouragement from a writer who had enriched...

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Publisher / Publication Date: illustrations, portraits 2023

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Green Town, Illinois stands at the very heart of Ray Bradbury Country. A lovingly re-imagined version of the author's native Waukegan, it has served as the setting for such modern classics as Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer . In Summer Morning, Summer Night, Bradbury returns to this signature locale with a generous new collection of twenty-seven stories and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2008

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: In Bradbury's futuristic novel, the knowledge gained from books is forbidden, and television replaces deep thought with vapid and menial information. Firefighter Guy Montag is assigned to locate, confiscate, and burn books. He is content with his life and job until he discovers the valuable knowledge found within books. Now, Guy must decide to either continue his stale existence or abscond with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Twenty-one tales. In The Very Gentle Murders, two very old people scheme to murder each other, while Last Rites is on a man who travels back in time to comfort big name writers not famous in their day to assure them they will be so after their death.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1996

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as a particularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems more like a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldly auras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990

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Bradbury, Ray

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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Odell Editions/Capra Press 1991

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Bradbury, Ray

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999

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Bradbury, Ray

Contents: The Kilimanjaro device -- The terrible conflagration up at the place -- Tomorrow's child -- The women -- The inspired chicken motel -- Downwind from Gettysburg -- Yes, we'll gather at the river -- The cold wind and the warm -- Night call, collect -- The haunting of the new -- I sing the body electric! -- The tombling day -- Any friend of Nicholas Nickleby's a friend of mine -- Heavy-set -- The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Presents two novellas, including "Somewhere a Band Is Playing," in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99," in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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Bradbury, Ray

Contents: First day -- Heart transplant -- Quid pro quo -- After the ball -- In memoriam -- Tete-a-tete -- Dragon danced at midnight -- Nineteenth -- Beasts -- Autumn afternoon -- Where all is emptiness there is room to move -- One-woman show -- Laurel and Hardy alpha centauri farewell tour -- Leftovers -- One more for the road -- Tangerine -- With smiles as wide as summer -- Time intervening -- Enemy in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks 2017

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: A collection of new short stories by the award-winning science-fiction writer of One More for the Road includes tales of twentieth-century rural life, Halloween terrors, and flights of fancy on Martian shores. Ray Bradbury is, indisputably, one of America's greatest storytellers. The recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2004

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Contains a collection of twenty-two short stories on strange and scary happenings, alien invaders in the form of giant spiders, and humor including a story about twelve drunken senators who gamble away the United States to an Indian chief at a casino.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Twenty-one stories with general themes by a leading science fiction writer. In one story, a dead man thinks he is still alive, another story features a killer garbage disposal unit, and a third is on the downside of immortality.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Celebrating the final days of summer, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his friends declare war on the stuffy older set of their community, an effort for which the boys plot to stop the courthouse building clock as a means of staying young forever.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: A group of children and a "spirit" go back through time to discover the beginnings of Halloween.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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