Ray Bradbury

Presents thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales, from his collections Golden apples of the sun published by Bantam, 1964 and R is for rocket published by Bantam, 1965.

For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas -- tales that amaze, enthrall, and horrify; breathtaking journeys...

Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars-and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms ... A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry-yet marries-his beloved eighth-grade teacher ... In the hell of a Manhattan July night, Will Morgan is offered a possibly Mephistophelean proposal by which he might gain a perfect love and a magical immunity ......

In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.

A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. In books that look forward to astonishing futures and backward to evanescent realms of memory, he elevated speculative fiction from the pages of the pulps to the vital center of American literary culture. This definitive Library of America edition gathers his novels and story cycles of the 1950s and 1960s for...

Guy Montag é um bombeiro. Dele emprego consiste em destruir livros proibidos e as casas onde esses livros estão escondidos. Ele nunca questiona a destruição causada, e no final do dia regressa para a sua vida apática com a esposa, Mildred, que passa o dia imersa na sua televisão. Um dia, Montag conhece a sua excêntrica vizinha Clarisse e é como se um sopro de vida o despertasse para o mundo. Ela apresenta-o a um passado onde as pessoas viviam...

Martian chronicles: The first settlers on Mars discover the shocking secrets of the Red Planet. Illustrated man: A wanderer meets a tattooed man whose images predict the future. Golden apples of the sun: Short stories by the author. There are a couple of Chinese tales of moral import, a short sketch of a Mexican being deported, a baseball game between whites and blacks, a mountain woman who has not learned to read or write, a religious faith that...

Told through letters from his late teens to his ninth decade, this collection shows the iconic author's progression through life as he knew it, illuminating his enduring legacy as a storyteller, novelist and space-age visionary whose works turned into popular adaptations for stage, film and television.