A Medicine for Melancholy and Other S..., Ray Bradbury
A Medicine for Melancholy and Other S..., Ray Bradbury
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A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 13 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/23/2018


Synopsis

Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of 31 of Bradbury's most arresting tales-timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wendy Darling on May 10, 2011

This short story still moves me unbearably, more than 20 years after I first read it. All the more powerful for things left unsaid. Available to read online here.......more

Goodreads review by Trish on May 27, 2016

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......more

Goodreads review by Jess on June 08, 2011

I read this back in grade 6 I think, and I remember how sad I felt for Margot. I also remember that this also really hit home about consequences for our actions and how a simple I'm sorry does not or will not always suffice. So present day and I need my five year old son to start understanding this......more

Goodreads review by Ushasree on February 25, 2018

What a beautiful story of hope, life, memories and grief. I loved how Ray Bradbury used kids to talk about nuanced emotions, because their impact can only be fully understood when one is older. This story could be read and enjoyed by kids the age of Margot and older folks equally. It was sad to see......more