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| Title | : | A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Ray Bradbury |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 1998 by Avon Books (first published 1959) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Science Fiction. Fiction. Classics. Fantasy |
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Contents: 1 • In a Season of Calm Weather • (1957) • short story by Ray Bradbury 7 • A Medicine for Melancholy • (1959) • short story by Ray Bradbury 16 • The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit • non-genre • (1958) • short story by Ray Bradbury 39 • Fever Dream • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury 46 • The Marriage Mender • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury 51 • The Town Where No One Got Off • (1958) • short story by Ray Bradbury 59 • A Scent of Sarsaparilla • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 66 • The Headpiece • (1958) • short story by Ray Bradbury 74 • The First Night of Lent • [The Irish Stories] • (1956) • short story by Ray Bradbury 81 • The Time of Going Away • (1956) • short story by Ray Bradbury 88 • All Summer in a Day • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury 94 • The Gift • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury 97 • The Great Collision of Monday Last • [The Irish Stories] • (1958) • short story by Ray Bradbury 104 • The Little Mice • (1955) • short story by Ray Bradbury 109 • The Shore Line at Sunset • (1959) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Shoreline at Sunset) 118 • The Day It Rained Forever • (1957) • short story by Ray Bradbury 129 • Chrysalis • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury 150 • Pillar of Fire • (1948) • novelette by Ray Bradbury 188 • Zero Hour • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury 198 • The Man • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury 210 • Time in Thy Flight • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 215 • The Pedestrian • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury 220 • Hail and Farewell • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury 228 • Invisible Boy • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury 237 • Come Into My Cellar • (1962) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!) 254 • The Million-Year Picnic • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Million Year Picnic) 264 • The Screaming Woman • [Green Town] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury 278 • The Smile • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury 284 • Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed • (1949) • short story by Ray Bradbury 299 • The Trolley • [Dandelion Wine] • (1955) • short story by Ray Bradbury 303 • Icarus Montgolfier Wright • (1956) • short story by Ray BradburyDefine Books To A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories
| Original Title: | A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories |
| ISBN: | 0380730863 (ISBN13: 9780380730865) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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"The stranger was drawing and drawing and did not seem to sense that anyone stood immediately behind him and the world of his drawings in the sand... Twenty, thirty yards or more the nymphs and dryads and summer founts sprang up in unravelled hieroglyphs. And the sand, in the dying light, was the colour of molten copper on which was now slashed a message that any man in any time might read and savour down the years. Everything whirled and poised in its own wind and gravity." Whenever I take aOne of Bradbury's best short stories, this one came to be re-printed often as it is imaginative, poignant and still fun to read. Taking the premise that the characters of the story are on a planet where it rains constantly, and the sun shines in only one day, revealing instantly blossoming plants, and equally blooming spirits of the children, the images Bradbury creates become archetypal for his brand of narrative. Short and sweet, just like the flowers on Venus, this is one of Bradbury's best,
I think the sun is a flower,That blooms for just one hour. Imagine living on a planet where you get to glimpse the sun for only one or two hours every seven years. The rest of the time you only get rain and massive thunderstorms. And now imagine you are a 9 years old child who remembers what it's like living under the clear blue sky.I suppose I can take sad stories as long as they are very short.Available online.*Read this for our May Short Story Month Marathon, a personal challenge during
...yes, I remember now. I read this story many years ago, when I was still just a child. I was probably younger than even the kids in this story who are all nine. I remember reading this because of the impact it left on me for the rest of my life. It's a story that is one of the only ones I remember out of those early years of my childhood. And it revolutionized my world. It introduced me to so many things. It showed me a world that was not mine, a world as foreign and alien as if I had been
There is no sun or summer in Venus: a metaphor for leaving/missing home. As its often the case with this authors stories, Sci Fi is used to show the reader that the development of technology might make us reach the stars or in this case, Venus but in doing so it might make us miss what makes our planet amazing: nature. Such simple things such as the summer or the shining sun that we take for granted every day will be missed: well only be left with memories of how it once was. This story can
Such an unusual and beautiful combination of science fiction and fable. Ray Bradbury has such a gift with words, and while I certainly enjoyed and appreciated the message of the text, I still feel as if there was still too much left unsaid.
Rain. Water. Here on Earth it means life. Without it, there would be no forests, not grass, no nothing.On Venus (the Venus in this story anyway) there is constant rain and wind and thunderstorms and all the horrible consequences such as floods from it. It rains for seven years without end, then you get two hours of sun. That's it.So what would that do to humans? Living in such an environment?Well, I guess it's not even the rain itself that is the problem, but monotony in general and a complete
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