The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories

by Bradbury, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780380730391
• ISBN10: 0380730391
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outrÉ fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the century's great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safary, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own. Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the centurys great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.

Table of Contents

The Fog Horn	p. 1
The April Witch	p. 10
The Wilderness	p. 21
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl	p. 31
The Flying Machine	p. 43
The Murderer	p. 49
The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind	p. 58
I See You Never	p. 63
Embroidery	p. 67
The Big Black and White Game	p. 71
The Great Wide World Over There	p. 83
Powerhouse	p. 96
En La Noche	p. 106
Sun and Shadow	p. 111
The Meadow	p. 119
The Garbage Collector	p. 135
The Great Fire	p. 141
The Golden Apples of the Sun	p. 148
R Is for Rocket	p. 157
The End of the Beginning	p. 174
The Rocket	p. 180
The Rocket Man	p. 191
A Sound of Thunder	p. 203
The Long Rain	p. 216
The Exiles	p. 231
Here There Be Tygers	p. 246
The Strawberry Window	p. 260
The Dragon	p. 269
Frost and Fire	p. 273
Uncle Einar	p. 316
The Time Machine	p. 324
The Sound of Summer Running	p. 332
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