Summer Morning, Summer Night
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Summer Morning, Summer Night is a 2008 collection of short stories
by Ray Bradbury
edited by Donn Albright and Jon Eller. All the stories save one are set in Green Town, Illinois, Bradbury's name for his hometown of Waukegan, Illinois
. Several of the stories feature some of the characters from his Dandelion Wine
. Some stories are less than one page long.
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
edited by Donn Albright and Jon Eller. All the stories save one are set in Green Town, Illinois, Bradbury's name for his hometown of Waukegan, Illinois
Waukegan, Illinois
Waukegan is a city and county seat of Lake County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 87,901. The 2010 population was 89,078. It is the ninth-largest city in Illinois by population...
. Several of the stories feature some of the characters from his Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois — a pseudonym for Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois...
. Some stories are less than one page long.
Contents
The collection contains:- End of Summer (1948)
- The Great Fire (1949)
- All on a Summer's Night (1950)
- Miss Bidwell (1950)
- The Pumpernickel (1951)
- At Midnight, in the Month of June (1954)
- A Walk in Summer (1979)
- Autumn Afternoon (2002)
- Arrival and Departure
- The Beautiful Lady
- Love Potion
- Night Meeting
- The Death of So-and-So
- I Got Something You Ain't Got!
- The Waders
- The Dog
- The River That Went to the Sea
- Over, Over, Over, Over, Over, Over, Over, Over!
- The Projector
- The People with Seven Arms
- A Serious Discussion (or Evil in the World)
- The Fireflies
- The Circus
- The Cemetery (or The Tombyard)
- Summer's End