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The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition Volume 2, 1943-1944 (Hardcover, Critical edition)
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The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition Volume 2, 1943-1944 (Hardcover, Critical edition)
Series: Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury spent decades refashioning many of his early pulp and
mainstream magazine stories to form the intricate story-cycle
tapestries of The Martian Chronicles and Dandelion Wine; other
tales were revised or rewritten for such timeless collections as
Dark Carnival, The Illustrated Man, The Golden Apples of the Sun,
and The October Country. These volumes represent wonderful and
enduring fictional masks for the author, but they are not his
original masks. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury series
returns to the earliest surviving forms of his oldest published
tales, presenting many of them in versions not seen since the 1940s
and early 1950s, when the Golden Age of the American magazine began
to pass into history. The restoration of these texts is a scholarly
enterprise, including searches through long-lost typescripts,
hundreds of elusive magazine issues, and thousands of textual
variants, seeking to restore the author s earliest intentions for
his first published stories. Jonathan R. Eller's textual
commentaries document the history of the composition and
publication of the stories and Bradburys emerging understanding of
genre fiction from their original forms to the versions best known
today. The second volume of the series includes twenty-five stories
written between April 1943 and March 1944, and it contains eight
stories that Bradbury never placed in his own story collections.
These tales document an incredibly productive year that saw the
twenty-three year-old writer move ever closer to becoming a
masterful teller of timeless stories. For many of them, the
original serial forms recovered in this volume differ significantly
from the versions Bradbury popularized in his subsequent
collections. For three of these stories, the original typescripts
survive, making it possible to establish the critical text directly
from the author's unstyled spellings and punctuation. By
documenting the way the stories evolved over time, Eller reveals
crucial new information about Bradbury s maturing creativity and
poetic prose style. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury is edited
in compliance with the highest scholarly standards by the Center
for Ray Bradbury Studies and bears the Modern Language
Association's seal of approval for scholarly editions. Each volume
includes a general introduction, biographical timeline, summary of
unpublished stories, historical commentaries for each story,
textual apparatus, and a chronological catalog.
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