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The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and meticulous.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Earthlight, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780671017842
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“The incredible event occurred during my third visit to Gustav Von Seyfertitz, my foreign psychoanalyst.”
Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his stature i
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