The TOC above shows that the material for this 1957 book was first published in the early 1950s - once RB’s reputation had been established by TMC. (Somewhat like Asimov’s I, ROBOT - the same year!) DW has no such TOC there are page breaks between sections, but no titles. ss Everywoman’s Magazine Feb 1954, as “The Magical Kitchen” (?)īradbury had done something similar with THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES (1950 TMC), but that wasn’t presented as a novel, but as what I call a ‘linked-collection’ of related stories, listed in a table of contents at the front of the book.ss The Saturday Evening Post May 25 1957.ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 14 1957.ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 18 1956.(The * after some titles indicates no prior publication a remarkable number of sections were previously published as short magazine pieces.)ĭandelion Wine Ray Bradbury (Doubleday, 1957, 281pp, hc) Since the book editions of DW do not identify the previous material, once again I’ll copy the TOC from Bill Contento’s Locus Index. It was published in 1957 as a novel, not a short story collection, though actually it’s a hybrid, what SF critics call a ‘fix-up’ ( ), a book made up of previously published material, strung or stitched together often with added material. DANDELION WINE (DW) is certainly Bradbury’s most personal book, because it is so clearly based on Bradbury’s own life as a boy in small-town Illinois.

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