Przerażająco prorocza powieść o przyszłości w świecie postliterackim… Guy Montag jest strażakiem. Jego praca polega na niszczeniu najbardziej zakazanego ze wszystkich dóbr, źródła wszelkich niesnasek i nieszczęść: książek. Nie przychodzi mu do głowy, że mógłby kwestionować swoje nijakie życie – dopóki nie zostanie mu objawiona przeszłość, w której ludzie nie żyli w strachu, i teraźniejszość, w której można postrzegać świat przez pryzmat idei. Zaczyna ukrywać w domu książki, które wkrótce zagrożą jego życiu.
Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning....
It's the week before Hallowe'en, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled . . . And as two boys trembling on the brink of manhood set out to explore the mysteries of the dark carnival's smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will also discover the true price of innermost wishes . .
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.
The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe optimisitcally viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's 1940s short stories of a brutal, stark and unforgiving martian landscape were as shocking and visionary as they were 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 they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a pin dot. Those few that survived found no welcome. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up. More rockets arrived from Earth, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them - and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.
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.
Zbiór powieści i opowiadań, których akcja rozgrywa się w miasteczku Green Town. Niezwykłe historie o krainie dzieciństwa, widzianej z wielką nostalgią i miłością, opowieści o budzeniu się samoświadomości nastoletnich bohaterów, wielkiej afirmacji życia, codziennych wydarzeniach i rytuałach. Ale także podróże do krainy dziecięcych koszmarów, mrocznych miejsc i niepokojących zdarzeń. W skład książki Green Town wchodzą: Słoneczne wino, Jakiś potwór tu nadchodzi, Pożegnanie lata i Letni ranek, letnia noc.
Przerażająco prorocza powieść o przyszłości w świecie postliterackim... Guy Montag jest strażakiem. Jego praca polega na niszczeniu najbardziej zakazanego ze wszystkich dóbr, źródła wszelkich niesnasek i nieszczęść: książek. Nie przychodzi mu do głowy, że mógłby kwestionować swoje nijakie życie – dopóki nie zostanie mu objawiona przeszłość, w której ludzie nie żyli w strachu, i teraźniejszość, w której można postrzegać świat przez pryzmat idei. Zaczyna ukrywać w domu książki, które wkrótce zagrożą jego życiu.
Kultowa edycja ! Tom zatytułowany Mroczny karnawał po dziewięciu latach sam Ray Bradbury wzbogacił o pięć nowych opowieści grozy i zmienił tytuł na Październikową Krainę.
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