Ray Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles (LOA #347) PDF Download

Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1598537008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Four classics of the imagination from one of America's most beloved authors--including the complete Martian Chronicles. A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. To explore the worlds of his books, his astonishing futures and haunting pasts, is to rediscover the wondrous possibilities of life. This Library of America edition gathers four of his greatest works in a single volume. Here is The Martian Chronicles in the complete form Bradbury came to prefer, its twenty-eight linked story-chapters offering visionary glimpses of our spacefaring future. In the dystopian thriller Fahrenheit 451, books and all they contain are forbidden. Dandelion Wine distills the enchanting essences of a childhood summer, while Something Wicked This Way Comes conjures the wild, centrifugal imaginings of youthful terror, in a fight to the death against supernatural foes. Biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers a newly researched chronology of Bradbury’s life and career and detailed textual and explanatory notes.

Author: Ray D. Bradbury
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1598537407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For the first time in a deluxe collector's boxed set, here is the ultimate Ray Bradbury edition, including three novels, three story collections, and thirty-three other stories and rarities Ray Bradbury has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. His greatest works are now presented in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, collecting: Ray Bradbury: Novels & Storiy Cycles (LOA #347) THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES FAHRENHEIT 451 DANDELION WINE SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES Appendix: A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction? No Man Is an Island Just This Side of Byzantium (An Introduction to Dandelion Wine) Dandelion Wine Revisited Carnivals, Near and Far (An Afterword to Something Wicked . . .) Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories (LOA #360) THE ILLUSTRATED MAN THE OCTOBER COUNTRY Other Stories: "R Is for Rocket" "Chrysalis" "Frost and Fire" "Powerhouse" "Pillar of Fire" "Asleep in Armageddon" "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" "A Touch of Petulance" "The Screaming Woman" "The Fog Horn" "The Pedestrian" "The Playground" "A Sound of Thunder" "The Great Wide World Over There" "The Golden Apples of the Sun" "And the Rock Cried Out" "All Summer in a Day" "Interval in Sunlight" "At Midnight, in the Month of June" "The Strawberry Window" "Icarus Montgolfier Wright" "The End of the Beginning" "The Day It Rained Forever" "A Miracle of Rare Device" "The Kilimanjaro Device" "The Lost City of Mars" "I Sing the Body Electric!"

Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781416585008
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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DANGER LURKS IN THE HEART OF THE CITY . . . BUT NOT ALWAYS WHERE YOU EXPECT IT. From New York to Los Angeles to Bucharest, fifteen never-before-published tales by some of the world’s finest fantasy and horror writers celebrate the newest incarnations of an age-old terror that strikes when the moon is full . . . the werewolf. No longer confined to the forests, these modern monsters can be found in places you frequent every day—and never before thought to fear. CARRIE VAUGHN’s popular werewolf radio host Kitty Norville is drawn into a controversy as to whether it’s fair to ban lycanthropy from professional sports. New York’s famous Plaza Hotel is the setting for ESTHER M. FRIESNER’s tale of one very grisly little girl, while Beverly Hills may never quite recover from RON GOULART’s middle-aged Hollywood screenwriter who falls prey to a most unusual problem. Celebrated fantasy author PETER S. BEAGLE tells a chillingly lyrical story of three Louisiana loup garoux locked into a deadly dance of death. Plus many more biting tales from award-winning authors: HOLLY BLACK • P.D. CACEK • GREGORY FROST • TANITH LEE HOLLY PHILLIPS • MIKE RESNICK • DARRELL SCHWEITZER • LISA TUTTLE IAN WATSON • GENE WOLFE • CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410335798
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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A Study Guide for Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author: Lisa Murray
Publisher: American Cancer Society
ISBN: 9780944235225
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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"As comedian and cancer-camp volunteer Jeff Foxworthy notes in this foreword, "Spend some time in the presence of children with cancer and you're never quite the same again." We know they are so much more. In an awe-inspiring photographic essay, art therapist Lisa Murray and photographer Billy Howard portray 25 childhood cancer patients as they express through art and words their feelings about the cancers that threatened them. The authors recently revisited the survivors, some of whom are now young adults embarking on careers and starting families. Angels & Monsters honors the lives of the children it portrays and the lives of other children like them everywhere."--Publisher description.

Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 0374608288
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Rendered in gorgeous, full-color art by Dennis Calero, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation graphically translates fourteen of Bradbury's famous interconnected science-fiction stories, turning an unforgettable vision of man and Mars into an unforgettable work of art. The Earthmen came by the handful, then the hundreds, then the millions. They swept aside the majestic, dying Martian civilization to build their homes, shopping malls, and cities. Mars began as a place of boundless hopes and dreams, a planet to replace an Earth sinking into waste and war. It became a canvas for mankind's follies and darkest desires. Ultimately, the Earthmen who came to conquer the red-gold planet awoke to discover themselves conquered by Mars. Lulled by its ancient enchantments, the Earthmen learned, at terrible cost, to overcome their own humanity.

Author: Allen Glover
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683357574
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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The pioneering, incisive, lavishly illustrated survey of noir on television—the first of its kind Noir—as a style, movement, or sensibility—has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called “film noir” by French cineÌ?astes. But film isn’t the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject. Deconstructing its key elements with astute analysis, from NBC’s adaptation of Woolrich’s The Black Angel to the anthology programs of the ’40s and ’50s, from the classic period of Dragnet, M Squad, and 77 Sunset Strip to neo-noirs of the ’60s and ’70s including The Fugitive, Kolchak, and Harry O., this is the essential volume on TV noir.

Author: Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 151249979X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Have you ever looked up at the twinkling stars in the night sky? Nancy Grace Roman looked up and never looked back. Roman was fascinated with the stars ever since her mother showed her the constellations. She read every book on astronomy she could find and even started her own neighborhood astronomy club for girls. But many of the people around her didn't think science was the right field for a woman. Academic advisers in high school and even college tried to dissuade Roman from pursuing astronomy. She worked hard to eventually become NASA's first Chief of Astronomy and, ultimately, the "Mother of Hubble." Learn how Roman's passion for astronomy and her tireless work on the Hubble Space Telescope project helped scientists capture breathtaking images of deep space.

Author: Ginger Strand
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government; weather proved a decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions. Maybe weather will even be the "New Super Weapon." But when the army takes charge of his cloud-seeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the harmful uses of his inventions, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. In a fascinating cultural history, Ginger Strand chronicles the intersection of these brothers' lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold War looms, Bernard's struggle for integrity plays out in Kurt's evolving writing style. The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how science's ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists.

Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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