by Ray Bradbury
—Providence Sunday Journal
“In The Cat’s Pajamas, we get to marvel again at the breadth of [Bradbury’s] subjects.... This collection is a true gift from a powerful writing talent.”
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“[The stories] mix dashes of beautiful whimsy with gold-tinged nostalgia and the occasional sharp stab of pain.”
—Kirkus Reviews
BY RAY BRADBURY
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines
Bradbury Stories
The Cat’s Pajamas
Dandelion Wine
Dark Carnival
Death Is a Lonely Business
Driving Blind
Fahrenheit 451
From the Dust Returned
The Golden Apples of the Sun
A Graveyard for Lunatics
Green Shadows, White Whale
The Halloween Tree
I Sing the Body Electric!
The Illustrated Man
Let’s All Kill Constance
Long After Midnight
The Martian Chronicles
The Machineries of Joy
A Medicine for Melancholy
The October Country
One More for the Road
Quicker Than the Eye
R Is for Rocket
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
S Is for Space
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Toynbee Convector
When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Witness and Celebrate
Yestermorrow
Zen in the Art of Writing
COPYRIGHT
“A Careful Man Dies” was first published in the November 1946 issue of New Detective; copyright © 1946 by Ray Bradbury.
“Sixty-Six” was first published in the December 2003 issue of The Strand; copyright © 2003 by Ray Bradbury.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2004 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
THE CAT’S PAJAMAS. Copyright © 2004 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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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Bradbury, Ray.
The cat’s pajamas : stories / Ray Bradbury.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-058565-X
I. Title.
PS3503.R167C37 2004
813’.54—dc22 2004042617
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ISBN-10: 0-06-077733-8 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-077733-3 (pbk.)
EPub Edition MAY 2013 ISBN: 9780062242297
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