Additionally, the story 'The Shoreline at Sunset' is titled 'The Sunset Harp' in the UK edition. The British edition, published by Rupert Hart-Davis, omitted 'A Medicine for Melancholy', 'The First Night of Lent', 'All Summer in a Day' and 'The Great Collision of Monday Last', replacing them with 'Referent', 'Almost the End of the World', 'Here There Be Tygers', 'Perchance to Dream' and 'And the Rock Cried Out'. The Day It Rained Forever was originally published in 1959 as A Medicine For Melancholy in the US and as The Day It Rained Forever in the UK. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th and 21st Centuries. His best-known and most beloved books are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. Once read, Ray Bradbury's words are never forgotten. A man seeking the forgotten scent of sarsaparilla in his attic passes through a window into the lost land of his boyhood. A homesick family of colonists on Mars begin to notice that each is undergoing a subtle transformation. Synopsis / Contents: Three old men awaiting the January rains in a ghost town hotel in a burning desert are visited by a strange musician. Hornsea, East Yorkshire, UK PS Publishing 2008. THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER by Ray Bradbury, intro by Caitlin Kiernan, cover by Tomislav Tikulin.
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