Ray Bradbury · shared-setting-cycle
Green Town books in order
A shared setting and cycle of novels and stories centered on the fictional Illinois town of Green Town.
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- 1 Dandelion Wine
Book 1 · fix-up-novel · 1957
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and…
- 2 Something Wicked This Way Comes
Book 2 · novel · 1962
Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury's unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the…
- 3 The Halloween Tree
Book 3 · novel · 1972
"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he…
- 4 Farewell Summer
Book 4 · novel · 2006
***Sequel to Dandelion Wine In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that…
- 5 Summer Morning, Summer Night
Book 5 · short-story-collection · 2007 Optional
Green Town, Illinois stands at the very heart of Ray Bradbury Country. A lovingly re-imagined version of the author's native Waukegan, it has served as the setting for such modern classics as Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way…
