Books by Ray Bradbury (6)


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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury EN

Rating: 4 (8 votes)
Description:
Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century literature. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future. 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 ... continue

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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury RO

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
O poveste tulburătoare şi poetică, Fahrenheit 451 este o parabolă a unei societăţi în care valorile pe care le cunoaştem au fost răsturnate, în care statul interzice cititul şi legiferează arderea cărţilor. Cetăţenii acestei lumi distopice trăiesc într-o indiferenţă indusă de droguri şi de mass-media. Unul dintre ei este Guy Montag. El are o sarcină simplă: trebuie să dea foc tuturor cărţilor şi caselor în care acestea sunt ascunse. Ii place meseria pe care-o practică de zece ani, simte că-şi face pe deplin datoria şi nu are niciodată îndoieli... până &icir... continue

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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
The show crept into town late one dark October night to the eerie whine of a calliope. In the terrifying days that followed, everything changed... Two boys stumbled onto the first of the secrets - the nightmare merry-go-round that produced the grisly turnabout of human beings. But not until they actually became part of the dance of death did they discover the final mystery of all...

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The golden apples of the sun by Ray Bradbury EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
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 ... continue

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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury— eighteen startling visions of humankind’s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, 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. Provocative and powerful, Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man i... continue

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.