Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

By Ray Bradbury | Publisher: HarperCollins

About the book

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 ...

Editions of Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

Paperback
ISBN 9780060785697
EBook
ISBN 9780062242075

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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 ...

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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 ...

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Sound of Thunder and Other Stories?

Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Plays, playscripts, drama

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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Sound of Thunder and Other Stories?

Ray Bradbury

Who is the Publisher of the book Sound of Thunder and Other Stories?

HarperCollins

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Sound of Thunder and Other Stories is available as paperback(ISBN 9780060785697) and ebook(ISBN 9780062242075)

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