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From Ray Bradbury, the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal comes a magical collection of short fiction.
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Classical in form, spare, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- W. Morrow, Earthlight, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788445007556
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“It was while he was eating breakfast that Charles Douglas glanced at his newspaper and saw the date.”
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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