The Day it Rained Forever

The Day it Rained Forever
Ray Douglas Bradbury

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.In a ghost town hotel in a burning desert three old men await the January rains – and are visited by a strange musician. A family of colonists on Mars are homesick for Earth. Terrified, they begin to notice that each is undergoing a subtle transformation. A man seeks the forgotten scent of sarsaparilla in his attic – and passes through a window into the lost land of his boyhood. The Day It Rained Forever includes many of Ray Bradbury's most celebrated stories.

THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER

Ray Bradbury

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First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis 1959

Published in Penguin Books 1963

Copyright © Ray Bradbury 1959

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Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007539819

Version: 2014–07–18

Dedication (#u546c7ddd-8cb2-592c-9fd8-5bcf078d63aa)

FOR

RUPERT HART-DAVIS

IN MEMORY OF

THE TERRIBLE SKIRMISH

THE TEMPORARY LOSS

BUT OUR INEVITABLE VICTORY

AT THE MIRABELLE

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#u57476b88-21da-5cc5-ab24-0f3d81634957)

Copyright (#ulink_c20d539f-ff35-53da-a618-720b9c6b295c)

Dedication

The Day it Rained Forever (#ulink_696530e4-38dc-5b86-84b1-192c6e3530e2)

In a Season of Calm Weather (#ulink_a9e3a61b-d44b-5d31-a416-14c672007750)

The Dragon (#ulink_5bf34c38-1c88-597e-99a8-d04d038e86d4)

The End of the Beginning (#ulink_6548c444-ba87-5b71-b0aa-6501bc00e884)

The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit (#ulink_da51cdb5-c3d2-5e7b-a42c-fbc4ef2eac01)

Fever Dream (#litres_trial_promo)

Referent (#litres_trial_promo)

The Marriage Mender (#litres_trial_promo)

The Town Where No One Got Off (#litres_trial_promo)

Icarus Montgolfier Wright (#litres_trial_promo)

Almost the End of the World (#litres_trial_promo)

Dark They were and Golden-eyed (#litres_trial_promo)

The Smile (#litres_trial_promo)

Here there be Tygers (#litres_trial_promo)

The Headpiece (#litres_trial_promo)

Perchance to Dream (#litres_trial_promo)

The Time of Going Away (#litres_trial_promo)