With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story,A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...**About the AuthorThe author of more than thirty books, Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our time. Among his best-known works areFahrenheit 451,The Martian Chronicles,The Illustrated Man,Dandelion Wine, andSomething Wicked This Way Comes. In 2000, Mr. Bradbury was honored by the National Book Foundation with a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He is the winner of the 2004 National Medal of Arts and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. In 2007, he was awarded a medal naming him a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, France's highest cultural award. His most recent books includeNow and Forever,Farewell Summer, andFrom the Dust Returned. Mr. Bradbury lives in Los Angeles.