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A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the UK by Hart-Davis in 1959 as The Day It Rained Forever with a slightly different list of stories.
A Medicine for Melancholy is a mixed bag of short stories by Ray Bradbury. A decent amount of them focus on Man's futile attempts to colonize Mars, a theme Bradbury focused on entirely in his excellent book The Martian Chronicles.
Bradbury's often-used smile imagery, here associated with the healing power of love, dominates this story. Camillia, a young girl living in eighteenth-century London, is gradually dying. The doctors have no diagnosis for her illness; they, as well as her parents, feel helplessly desperate.
Feb 1, 1998 · In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
Apr 30, 2013 · Harper Collins, Apr 30, 2013 - Fiction - 320 pages. Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes--for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to...
A Medicine for Melancholy. Ray Bradbury. Doubleday, 1959 - Science fiction, American - 240 pages.
Jan 1, 1975 · All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of thirty-one of Bradbury's most arresting tales--timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart. Ray Bradbury is known worldwide as one of the century's great men of imagination.
