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Farewell Summer
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 226 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20112009-05-24
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In the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois, an age-old conflict pitting the young against the elderly for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The graying forces of school board despot Mr. Calvin С. Quartermain have declared total war on thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his downy-cheeked cohorts. The boys, in turn, plan and execute daring campaigns, matching old Quartermain's experience and cunning with their youthful enthusiasm and devil-may-care determination to hold on forever to childhood's summer. Yet time must ultimately be the victor, as life waits in ambush to assail young Spaulding with its powerful mysteries — the irresistible ascent of manhood, the sweet surrender of a first kiss...
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Fahrenheit 451
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092011-04-15
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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
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Fahrenheit 451
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20152016-03-26
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Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television «family». But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
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We'll Always Have Paris: Stories
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 210 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20122013-04-27
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In We'll Always Have Paris — a new collection of stories gathered together for the first time — the inimitable Ray Bradbury once again delights us with prose that soars and sings. He imagines great things and poignantly observes human foibles and frailties. He enchants us with the magic he mastered decades ago and still performs flawlessly. Whether he's exploring the myriad ways to be reborn, or the circumstances that can make any man a killer, or returning us to Mars, Bradbury opens the world to us and beckons us in. His tales will live forever — we will always have Bradbury.
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The Martian Chronicles
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20152015-09-10
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Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor — of crystal pillars and fossil seas — where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn — first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
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The Illustrated Man
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 279 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20152017-08-11
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The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury — a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin — visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness... the sight of gray dust selling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere... the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.
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A Graveyard for Lunatics
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092004-04-07
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Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery — and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
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Fahrenheit 451
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: Gallimard-Folio Издательство: Gallimard-Folio Год: 2000 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092002-07-28
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451 degrés Fahrenheit représentent la température à laquelle un livre s'enflamme et se consume.Dans cette société future où la lecture, source de questionnement et de réflexion, est considérée comme un acte antisocial, un corps spécial de pompiers est chargé de brûler tous les livres, dont la détention est interdite pour le bien collectif.Montag, le pompier pyromane, se met pourtant à rêver d'un monde différent, qui ne bannirait pas la littérature et l'imaginaire au profit d'un bonheur immédiatement consommable. Il devient dès lors un dangereux criminel, impitoyablement poursuivi par une société qui désavoue son passé.
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Dandelion Wine
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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An endearing classic of childhood memories of an idyllic midwestern summer from the celebrated author of Farenheit 451. He stood at the open window in the dark, took a deep breath and exhaled. The street lights, like candles on a black cake, went out. He exhaled again and again and the stars began to vanish. Douglas smiled. He pointed a finger. There, and there. Now over here, and here... Yellow squares were cut in the dim morning earth as house lights winked slowly on. A sprinkle of windows came suddenly alight miles off in dawn country. Everyone yawn. Everyone up. In the backwaters of Illinois, Douglas Spaulding's grandfather makes an intoxicating brew from harvested dandelions. Dandelion Wine is a quirky, breathtaking coming-of-age story from one of science fiction's greatest writers. Distilling his experiences into Rites & Ceremonies and Discoveries & Revelations, the young Spaulding wistfully ponders over magical tennis shoes, and machines for every purpose from time travel to happiness and silent travel. Based upon Bradbury's own experiences growing up in Waukegan in the 1920s, Dandelion Wine is a heady mixture of fond memory, forgiveness, magic, the imagination and above all, of summers that seemed to go on forever.
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Stories of Ray Bradbury
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: Everyman Издательство: Everyman Год: 2010 Страниц: 1176 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20122011-06-23
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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. 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.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20092009-12-07
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A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a «dark carnival» one Autumn midnight. How these two innocents, both age 13, save the souls of the town (as well as their own), makes for compelling reading on timeless themes. What would you do if your secret wishes could be granted by the mysterious ringmaster Mr. Dark? Bradbury excels in revealing the dark side that exists in us all, teaching us ultimately to celebrate the shadows rather than fear them. In many ways, this is a companion piece to his joyful, nostalgia-drenched Dandelion Wine, in which Bradbury presented us with one perfect summer as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, he deftly explores the fearsome delights of one perfectly terrifying, unforgettable autumn.
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The Martian Chronicles
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1995 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20092000-08-03
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Written in the age of the atom, when America and Europe optimistically viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's closely interwoven tales of a brutal, stark and unforgiving Martian landscape are both astonishing and insightful. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. Those few who survived found no welcome on Mars. But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more. People brought their old prejudices with them — and their desires and fantasies and tainted dreams.
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One More for Road
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092004-12-20
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From Ray Bradbury, the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal comes a magical collection of short fiction. Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of the 20th century. He is the author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories sure to delight readers young and old, old and new. In One More For The Road we are treated to the best this talented writer has to offer: the eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative. Here are a father's regrets, a lover's last embrace, a child's dreams of the future ,l delivered with the trademark Bradbury wit and style.
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Now and Forever
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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Two dazzling new novellas from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451.
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Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing and Leviathan '99
Автор: Bradbury Ray Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 209 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20092009-10-21
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Honored with a National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000, a National Medal of Arts in 2004, and a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 2007, Ray Bradbury continues to present new work after 70 years. This is an omnibus of two previously unpublished novellas: «Somewhere a Band Is Playing» follows a writer drawn by his dreams to tiny Summerton, Arizona, a community hidden in plain view, where no small children play, and where the residents never seem to age; «Leviathan '99» is a futuristic adaptation of «Moby Dick» (Bradbury co-wrote the screenplay for John Huston's 1956 film version of Melville's book), in which fledgling astronaut Ishmael Hunnicut Jones boards the ship of a madman pursuing a planet-smashing comet.
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