Summer Morning, Summer Night. Ray Bradbury

       SUMMER MORNING, SUMMER NIGHT

       Ray Bradbury

Copyright

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Dedication

      To Jon Eller with love.

      Ray

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

A Note on the Texts

End of Summer (1948)

The Great Fire (1949)

All on a Summer’s Night (1950)

Miss Bidwell (1950)

       The Pumpernickel (1951)

       The Screaming Woman (1951)

       These Things Happen (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

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

A Note on the Texts

      The text for “End of Summer” is based on the version collected by Bradbury in Driving Blind (1997). The texts of all other previously published stories in this collection are based on the earliest published versions. I am grateful to David Spiech, my colleague at Indiana University’s Institute for American Thought, for copy editing this volume.

End of Summer

      ONE. TWO. HATTIE’S lips counted the long, slow strokes of the high town clock as she lay quietly