A Medicine for Melancholy

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name = A Medicine for Melancholy
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration from the first edition
author = Ray Bradbury
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Soft science fiction short stories
publisher = Doubleday & Company
release_date = 1959
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 240 pp
isbn = ISBN 0380730863 (paperback reprint)
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"A Medicine for Melancholy" (1959) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. It was released in the UK as "The Day It Rained Forever" with a slightly different list of stories.

Contents

* "In a Season of Calm Weather"
* "The Dragon"
* "A Medicine for Melancholy"
* "The End of the Beginning"
* "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit"
* "Fever Dream"
* "The Marriage Mender"
* "The Town Where No One Got Off"
* "A Scent of Sarsaparilla"
* "Icarus Montgolfier Wright"
* "The Headpiece"
* "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"
* "The Smile"
* "The First Night of Lent"
* "The Time of Going Away"
* "All Summer in a Day"
* "The Gift"
* "The Great Collision of Monday Last"
* "The Little Mice"
* "The Shore Line at Sunset"
* "The Strawberry Window"
* "The Day It Rained Forever"

Differences in editions

The British edition, published by Hart-Davis in 1959 as "The Day It Rained Forever" omits "A Medicine for Melancholy", "The First Night of Lent", "All Summer in a Day" and "The Great Collision of Monday Last", replacing them with "Referent", "Almost the End of the World", "Here There Be Tygers", "Perchance to Dream" and "And the Rock Cried Out". Additionally, the story "The Shoreline at Sunset" is titled "The Sunset Harp" in the UK edition.

References

* cite web
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accessdate = 2007-10-05
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=63 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1
* " [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?MDCNFML1959 A Medicine for Melancholy] " contents list at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB).
* " [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?THDYFRVRB71959 The Day It Rained Forever] " contents list at the ISFDB.