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The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition Volume 2, 19431944,Used
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Ray Bradbury spent decades refashioning many of his early pulp and mainstream magazine stories to form the intricate storycycle tapestries of The Martian Chronicles and Dandelion Wine; other tales were revised or rewritten for such timeless collections as Dark Carnival, The Illustrated Man, The Golden Apples of the Sun, and The October Country. These volumes represent wonderful and enduring fictional masks for the author, but they are not his original masks. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury series returns to the earliest surviving forms of his oldest published tales, presenting many of them in versions not seen since the 1940s and early 1950s, when the Golden Age of the American magazine began to pass into history.The restoration of these texts is a scholarly enterprise, including searches through longlost typescripts, hundreds of elusive magazine issues, and thousands of textual variants, seeking to restore the authors earliest intentions for his first published stories. Jonathan R. Ellers textual commentaries document the history of the composition and publication of the storiesand Bradburys emerging understanding of genre fictionfrom their original forms to the versions best known today.The second volume of the proposed eightvolume edition includes twentyfive stories written between April 1943 and March 1944, and it contains eight stories that Bradbury never placed in his own story collections. These tales document an incredibly productive year that saw the twentythreeyearold writer move ever closer to becoming a masterful teller of timeless stories. For many of them, the original serial forms recovered in this volume differ significantly from the versions Bradbury popularized in his subsequent collections. For three of these stories, the original typescripts survive, making it possible to establish the critical text directly from the authors unstyled spellings and punctuation. By documenting the way the stories evolved over time, Eller reveals crucial new information about Bradburys maturing creativity and poetic prose style.The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury is edited in compliance with the highest scholarly standards by the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies and bears the Modern Language Associations seal of approval for scholarly editions. Each volume includes a general introduction, biographical timeline, summary of unpublished stories, historical commentaries for each story, textual apparatus, and a chronological catalog.
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