A Sound of Thunder

✍ Scribed by Bradbury, Ray

• Book ID: 106920717
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 11 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780060785697

✦ Synopsis

Product Description

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder , tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...

About the Author

Ray Bradbury is the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451 , The Martian Chronicles , Dandelion Wine , and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He has written for the theater and cinema, including the screenplay for John Huston's classic adaptation of Moby Dick. He was nominated for an Academy Award, won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree , and adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater. He lives in Los Angeles.