Series
The Irish Stories
Ray Bradbury · 1 novel · 11 short stories · 1956–1992
Green Shadows, White Whale is Ray Bradbury's fictionalized account of the months he spent in Ireland in 1953-54 writing the Moby-Dick screenplay for director John Huston, blending memoir with short stories and vignettes he wrote about the country over the following decades. It stands as a single novel rather than a multi-book series, gathering material Bradbury considered the culmination of thirty-five years of Ireland-inspired writing. The title plays on Peter Viertel's Huston-focused White Hunter, Black Heart.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Irish Stories at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s2
- 1960s6
- 1970s1
- 1980s2
- 1990s1
Shape
1 novel · 11 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:literary & generalfriendshipbritish islesmid 20th centuryreflectiveadult
Mood
Bright and calm: 8% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 6%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book12 of 12 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Haunting of the Newdarkest
- One for His Lordship, and One for the Road!brightest
- The First Night of Lentcalmest
- The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Placemost intense