Summoned to Ireland to write a screenplay for Moby Dick,  a young writer penetrates the enigma of the fog-shrouded land,  meeting a cast of brilliant characters, including IRA members, priests,  banshees, and others. Reprint. K.

Green Shadows, White Whale

Literature & Fiction

Ray. Bradbury

Contemporary

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

A classic collection of stories -- all told on the skin of a man -- from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art! Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories -- voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations! the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man.

The Illustrated Man (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Science & Math

Flamingo

Fahrenheit 451 (Voyager Classics)

Classics

Voyager

Ray Bradbury's remarkable collection of stories -- all told on the skin of a man. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art...Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories -- voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations...the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man.

The Illustrated Man

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

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.

Fahrenheit 451

Illustrated Man

HarperCollins Publishers, Limited

Farewell Summer

Robert Fass

Two dazzling new novellas from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451. Two previously unpublished novellas comprise this astonishing new volume from one of science fiction's greatest living writers. In the first, 'Somewhere a Band is Playing', newsman James Cardiff is lured through poetry and his fascination with a beautiful and enigmatic young woman to Summerton, Arizona. The small town's childless population hold an extraordinary secret which has been passed on for thousands of years unbeknownst to the rest of human civilization. In the second novella, 'Leviathan '99', the classic tale of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' is reborn as an interstellar adventure. It recounts the exploits of the mad Captain Ahab, who, blinded by his first encounter with a gigantic comet called 'Leviathan', pursues his lunatic vendetta across the universe. Born in space and seeking adventure in the skies, astronaut Ishmael Jones joins the crew aboard the Cetus 7 and quickly finds his fate in the hands of an indefatigable captain. Published together for the first time in one volume, these two stories twinkle with Bradbury's characteristically intricate metaphors and lyrical phrases. Both are a lasting testament to an older generation of writers that, much like the Leviathan itself, are on the threshold of passing on into the realm of legend.

Now and Forever

Harper/Voyager

Dandelion Wine (English and French Edition)

Literary

Paperback. Pub Date :2008-12-01 Pages: 176 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A poignant and brilliant sequel to Dandelion Wine from the author of Fahrenheit 451.In Green Town Illinois. Douglas Spaulding is in the midst of a small civil war with the old pitted against the young in this. the second book in Bradbury's semi-fictionalised account of his childhood.As the school board's figure of authority Mr Calvin C.Quartermain attempts to outwit the boys at every turn. their antics increase and become ever more daring and mischevious.Once the shadow of winter draws across Green Town. the boys quickly realise that their enemy is not so much the senior members of their own community. but rather time itself which is ever ebbing away. just beyond the reach of their most daring trick yet: a bold attempt to sabotage the town's clock.

FAREWELL SUMMER PB

Action & Adventure

HarperCollins, UK

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