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The Stories of Ray Bradbury

Included here are famous tales like Sound of Thunder, in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and The Veldt, in which two seemingly innocent young children transform their nursery into a lethal trap.Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet with its brittle cities and double-mooned sky. Here are stories which speak of a special nostalgia for Green Town, Illinois, the perfect setting for a seemingly cloudless childhood - except for the unknown terror lurking in the ravine.

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Here are the Irish stories and the Mexican stories, linked across their separate geographies by Bradbury's astonishing inventiveness. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories such as The Fog Horn- perfect for reading under the covers.

Read for the first time, these stories are a feast for the imagination; read again - and again - they reveal new, dazzling facets of a master storyteller's extraordinary art.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 884 pages

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