street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. Although his formal education ended there, he became a 'student of life,' selling newspapers on L.A. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born Augin Waukegan, Illinois. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant centuries joining an ancient couple in their wild assassination games celebrating life and dreams in the unique voice that has favored him across six decades and has enchanted millions of readers the world over.Ĭontains: Unterderseaboat Doktor - Zaharoff/Richter Mark V - Remember Sascha? - Another Fine Mess - The Electrocution - Hopscotch - The Finnegan - That Woman on the Lawn - The Very Gentle Murders - Quicker Than the Eye - Dorian in Excelsis - No News, or What Killed the Dog? - The Witch Door - The Ghost in the Machine - At the End of the Ninth Year - Bug - Once More, Legato - Exchange - Free Dirt - Last Rites - The Other Highway - Make Haste to Live: An Afterword The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight.

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