A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
ISBN-10
0062242075
ISBN-13
9780062242075
Category
Fiction
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2013-05-21
Publisher
Harper Collins
Author
Ray Bradbury

Description

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...

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