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"In The Cat's Pajamas, this "latter-day O. Henry" takes us on a walk through his six-decade career, presenting twenty-two tales - some old, some new, all but two never before published."
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Classical in form, spare, nostalgic and effortless.
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Edition Phantasia, Eksmo, Domino
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Spanish, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780062242297
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“LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT he arose and looked at the bottles fresh from their cartons, and put his hands up to touch them and strike a match gently to read the white labels, while his folks slept unaware in the next room.”
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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