Also by Ray Bradbury
NOVELS
The Martian Chronicles
Fahrenheit 451
Dandelion Wine
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Death Is a Lonely Business
A Graveyard for Lunatics
Green Shadows, White Whale
From the Dust Returned
Let’s All Kill Constance
Farewell Summer
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines: A Fable
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Dark Carnival
The Illustrated Man
The Golden Apples of the Sun
The October Country
A Medicine for Melancholy
R is for Rocket
The Machineries of Joy
The Autumn People
The Vintage Bradbury
S is for Space
Twice 22
Long After Midnight
The Small Assassin
The Mummies of Guanajuato
Beyond 1984: Remembrance of Things Future
This Attic Where the Meadow Greens
The Ghosts of Forever
The Last Circus and the Electrocution
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury
The Love Affair
Dinosaur Tales
A Memory of Murder
The Climate of Palettes
Classic Stories 1
Classic Stories 2
Yestermorrow
Quicker Than the Eye
Driving Blind
Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories
One More for the Road
Bradbury Stories
The Cat’s Pajamas
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
The Dragon Who Ate His Tail
Summer Morning, Summer Night
We’ll Always Have Paris
A Pleasure to Burn
NONFICTION
The Essence of Creative Writing
Zen in the Art of Writing
The God in Science Fiction
An Illustrated Life
Bradbury Speaks
Copyright
Photographs and illustrations: pp i and ix © Diane Miller/ iStockphoto, pp ii, vii, 23, and 89:© Andriy Myahkov/iStockphoto, pp v and 353 © Aleksander Trankov/iStockphoto, Flame icon © andres/iStockphoto; Match icon © Yuriy Chaban/ iStockphoto
Portions of A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories were previously published in the collection Match to Flame and the chapbook The Dragon Who Ate His Tail.
A hardcover edition of this book was published by Subterranean Press in March 2010.
A PLEASURE TO BURN. Copyright © 2010 by Ray Bradbury. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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ISBN 978-0-06-207102-6
Epub Edition © June 2013 ISBN: 9780062071033
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