The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Golden Apples of the Sun is a collection thirty-two of the most famous short stories by Ray Bradbury. It is named after the Yeats poem The Wandering Angus, which has the lines:

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Short stories - Ray Bradbury - Yeats

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I will find out where she has gone

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And kiss her lips and take her hands;

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And walk among the dappled grass,

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And pluck till time and times are gone

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The silver apples of the moon,

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The golden apples of the sun.

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The book was originally published in 1953 with twenty-two stories. The 1997 edition removed two stories (The Pedestrian and Hail and Farewell), and added twelve more. The book is currently published under the title A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005).

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The Pedestrian - Hail and Farewell - A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories - 2005

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