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The Halloween Tree is a 1972 fantasy novel by American author Ray Bradbury which traces the history of Samhain and Halloween.

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I Sing the Body Electric! is a 1969 collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The book takes its name from an included short story of the same title, which took the title from a poem by Walt Whitman published in his collection Leaves of Grass.

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The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere. The collection was published in numerous editions by Ballantine Books. The …

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Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The novel developed from the short story "Dandelion Wine" which appeared in the June 1953 issue of Gourmet magazine. The title …

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The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in …

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Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern town on one October. The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark" who …

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Les cròniques marcianes és un llibre de relats de l'escriptor estatunidenc Ray Bradbury. Els relats manquen d'un fil argumental fix però la referència contextual i temporal és la mateixa en tots ells. Narra l'arribada a Mart i la colonització del planeta per part dels humans, que provoca la caiguda de la civilització …

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Fahrenheit 451 és una novel·la de Ray Bradbury ambientada en una distopia futurista i publicada el 1953. El títol ve de la temperatura a la qual crema el paper, ja que una de les característiques dels líders al relat és cremar els llibres per controlar el que aprèn la població. El llibre ha esdevingut una obra de …