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Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe Ligeia …

- - - - Ray Bradbury shot to international fame after the publication of "The Martian Chronicles" (1950), a collection of short stories partially based on ideas from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Then he followed the anti-utopian writers in his best-known work, "Fahrenheit 451" (1953). In 2004 Bradbury received a National Medal of Arts. He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ray Bradbury died on June 6, 2012, at the age of 91, in Los Angeles.
- - - - However, Mildred does not share her husband's vision when it comes to books. She calls the firemen to burn his books. Montag attacks Captain Beatty, even going so far as to kill him. Meanwhile, a devious machine called the Mechanical Hound arrives to hunt Montag. His friend Faber tells him to escape the city and follow the railroad tracks. Montag does and meets up with a group of intellectuals.
        Each of the men he meets has memorized a part of a book. They invited Montag into their midst because he read a few pages of the Bible, and they hope they can recover it from him. As they talk, the city is bombed, and the men see the city destroyed right before their eyes. One of the men says that people will, like a phoenix, be able to rise out of the destruction.
- - - - Rowena dies, and as the narrator keeps watch over her body, he seems to hear a sigh from the dead corpse, and a flush of colour return to his dead wife’s pale cheeks. However, this soon fades again, and he convinces himself he was mistaken.
        But then, shortly after this, the corpse, wrapped in its funeral shroud, rises up and walks into the middle of the room. Rowena’s hair has transformed into the raven locks of the narrator’s first dead wife, Ligeia – and, indeed, to the narrator’s delight, the figure which stands before him is none other than Ligeia, supposedly back from the dead.
- - - - His short story The Young Folks was printed while he was at Columbia University. In 1941 he began submitting his stories to the The New Yorker magazine, but they were not published. In 1942 to 1945, J. D. Salinger played a role in the Second World War. Meanwhile, he continued his writing career, and The Saturday Evening Post magazine published his work. Collier's magazine also published some of his work.
        
        J. D. Salinger took his last breath on January 27th, 2010 at the age of 91. He died a natural death in New Hampshire located in the United States.
- - - - Irving began writing when he was 19 as a journalist using the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. rving traveled widely in Europe from 1804 to 1806 on a "grand tour," paid for by his family. After returning, using the pseudonym Dietrich Knickerbocker, Irving published the 1809 comic history of Dutch life in New York, "A History of New York." Some literary scholars consider this work of burlesque fiction to be his greatest book. Irving returned to Europe in 1815 and lived there for 17 years. In 1820, he published "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent," a collection of stories including his best-known works, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." These stories are thought to be the first examples of the genre of the short story, and they are both gothic and humorous. Washington Irving died of a heart attack in Tarrytown, New York on November 28, 1859.
- - - - The next morning, Ichabod’s horse is found and the town searches for him. When he is not found, the superstitious townspeople assume that he has been taken by the Horseman. However, Brom finds this tale a little too amusing and it is implied that he dressed up as the Horseman to frighten Ichabod into leaving. It works, and Ichabod has never seen in the town again.
- - - - Later, the guy goes to study at Princeton, where he is successful, studies well and becomes the editor of the Princeton Newspaper. Because of his laziness, Emory flunks the math exam, subsequently the guy loses his position as editor, his life begins to go downhill. After finishing his studies, along with many young guys, Amory goes to war. After returning home, the hero falls in love with a beautiful girl named Rosalind, the sister of his best friend. Despite the fact that the girl was madly in love with the guy, she refuses to marry him, by that time Amory was poor, in the eyes of society he was a loser. All the recent events and failures in his life, made the guy think about social justice.
- - - - In 1934, he published his last novel, Tender Is The Night. In 1937, Fitzgerald attempted to revive his career as a screenwriter and story writer in Hollywood, and he achieved modest financial success for his efforts. He started work on another novel, The Love of The Last Tycoon, in 1939, and completed over half of the book when he died of a heart attack on December 21,1940 at the age of 44.