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螒谓蟿伪位位伪纬萎
- GenresShort Stories
27 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2007
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Ray Bradbury
2,485听books24.3k听followersRay Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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April 22, 2024
It is a beautiful short story about a librarian and a man, a frequent library visitor when he was a boy. Now after many years, one night when the library is about to close he turns up and reminiscences the days when he used to spend hours at the library and talk about how stories are important and how reading is kept him sane.
June 20, 2023
This is one of my favorite short stories. It shows how important familiar books and locations can be in our lives when we are feeling lonely and forgotten. This story of a young man visiting the library of his childhood is amazing.
December 11, 2022
A man returns to his childhood library, and an elderly librarian welcomes him home. A story about nostalgia, our longing for things we love as children never to change, and the power of books to contain a child鈥檚 best friends.
September 25, 2018
A Charming story of a young boy who comes to the library voraciously and grows up to become a military man and up to the rank of a Captain. He arrives back to him hometown to find everything changed and different, his friends gone, and he is once again alone, except for his library and librarian, who after some time came to remember him and they spent a night reliving his volumes of readings. A connection is rekindled and they find meaning in each other again.
October 3, 2018
Working in the library for forty some years is getting to Miss Adams. Too many children, too many books, too much noise. Then a former patron arrives after hours looking for a final goodbye before shipping out. There is no finer writer of fantasy on this planet. Or maybe it is more accurate to call him a weaver of magic. 5 out of 5.
March 11, 2023
Far too sentimental and schmaltzy.
December 13, 2024
A love letter to librarians everywhere.
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