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Overview
The author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles is among the most highly respected science fiction and fantasy writers today. His works explore the nature and implication of what it means to be human in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial realms. Bradbury's often dystopian visions were a product of the times, years marked by the cold war and nuclear proliferation. This new collection of full-length critical essays contextualizes the popular author, exploring his enduring contributions to the genres of speculative fiction and apocalyptic literature.
The Bloom's Modern Critical Views series presents critical portraits of the writers that are most widely read and studied in high schools and colleges. Each volume opens with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom in which he offers his insights into the author's work and an editor's note that comments on the individual analyses that follow. Also included are bibliographic references, notes on the various contributors, and a useful chronology of the writer's life. Bloom's Modern Critical Views is a critical presentation of those men and women who, from ancient times to the present, have shaped the Western literary tradition.