Series
Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury · 1 novel · 15 short stories · 1946–1957
Dandelion Wine (1957) is Ray Bradbury's semi-autobiographical novel about twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding's summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, modeled on Bradbury's own childhood home of Waukegan. Told as a series of loosely connected vignettes rather than one continuous plot, it captures the small rituals and discoveries of one boy's coming of age and later became the first entry in Bradbury's informal Green Town sequence.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
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Stats
By decade
- 1940s1
- 1950s15
Shape
1 novel · 15 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:literary & generalcoming of agenorth americamid 20th centuryreflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book15 of 16 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Nightdarkest
- Illuminationbrightest
- Exorcismcalmest
- The Whole Town's Sleepingmost intense