Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781578066414

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Presents a collection of interviews with twentieth-century novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Ray Bradbury, that covers five decades of his life and works.


Listen to the Echoes

Listen to the Echoes

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1612192300

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A definitive collection of interviews with one of America's most famous writers, covering his life, faith, friends, politics, and visions of the future. Ray Bradbury, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. From Mikhail Gorbachev to Alfred Hitchcock to David Bowie, Bradbury’s sway on contemporary culture is towering. Acclaimed biographer and Bradbury scholar Sam Weller has spent more than a decade interviewing the author; the fascinating conversations that emerge cast a high-definition portrait of a creative genius and a futurist who longs for yesterday. Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews is the definitive collection of interviews with an American icon.


Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003-09-23

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0743247221

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Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.


Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones

Author: Chuck Jones

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781578067299

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Interviews with the legendary Warner Bros. artist who helped shaped the history of American animation


The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1451678193

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The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.


Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9780671872298

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A fireman in charge of burning books meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Depicts a future world in which all printed reading material is burned.


Bradbury Speaks

Bradbury Speaks

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2005-07-26

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0060585684

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He is an American treasure; a clear-eyed fantasist without peer; a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. He has a moon crater named after him and a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. He has been honored with prizes galore. He has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, invent, believe, and fly. Collected between these covers are memories, ruminations, opinions, prophecies, and philosophies from one of the most influential and admired writers of our time: boyhood experiences that molded the man, as well as his eye-opening, sometimes hilarious true adventures in the realm of the famous and adored; insightful, piquant reflections on humankind's past and future, and where we stand in the universe today; provocative and deeply affecting musings on the present state of art and the unparalleled glory of creation.--From publisher description.


The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1451678185

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Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.


Radical Conservatism

Radical Conservatism

Author: Robert Brent Toplin

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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An unflinching look at the origins, philosophy, meanings, and impact of the radical form of conservatism that currently dominates American politics. Analyzing the literature (books, magazines, newspapers) and broadcast sources that define and promote conservatism, Toplin leads the reader on a provocative tour of the conservative mind as viewed by a liberal tour guide.


The Art of Fiction

The Art of Fiction

Author: David Lodge

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1448137799

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In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.