Bradbury, Ray
Summary: Fireman Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to start fires. And he loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Then he meets a seventeen-year old girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think. And Guy Montag knows what he has to do ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1991
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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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Summary: The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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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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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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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Odell Editions/Capra Press 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999
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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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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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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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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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Summary: The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2010
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Bradbury, Ray
Summary: He is an American treasure; a clear-eyed fantasist without peer; a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. He has a moon crater named after him and a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. He has been honored with prizes galore. He has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, invent, believe, and fly. Collected between these covers are memories,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Summary: The summer of 1928, spent in rural Illinois, is a special one to young Douglas Spaulding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1976
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Summary: In California in 1949, a young writer and a detective believe a number of deaths associated with an amusement park were murders. Suddenly the killer begins stalking them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999
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Summary: In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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Summary: The Eliots, a family of vampires, mummies, and other otherworldly creatures, anxiously await the grand night of Homecoming in their farmhouse in northern Illinois.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001
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Summary: A strange carnival brings terror to the population of a small midwestern town. Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind, as has this one Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001
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Summary: Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1990
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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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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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