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The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years.. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth.
"The Toynbee Convector" "Trapdoor" "On the Orient, North" "One Night in Your Life" "West of October" "The Last Circus" "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair"
All but one of the stories had been published previously elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts for the book's publication. The book was made into the 1969 film, The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. It presents adaptations of the stories "The Veldt", "The Long Rain" and "The Last Night of the World".
The summer solstice is also the longest day of the year — and, if you look carefully, you can almost tell. On this day, which occurs at the start of both summer, the sun reaches its highest ...
"Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in ...
In the story, dandelion wine, as made by the protagonist's grandfather, serves as a metaphor for distilling all of the joys of summer. The main character of the story is Douglas Spaulding, a 12-year-old boy loosely patterned after Bradbury. Most of the book is focused upon the routines of small-town America, and the simple joys of yesterday.
On Rotten Tomatoes, All Summers End has an approval rating of 20% based on five reviews (one positive review and four negative), with an average rating of 3.50/10. [5] In a positive review, Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "the resolution seems honest and mature, and a brief epilogue is so powerful that it makes us forget some of the film's earlier lapses.
The transit arguably ended in Los Angeles when the sun set there (8:02 PDT). Whether a transit (which is a visual phenomenon) can be considered to be still going on after the sun has set and it can no longer be seen, is a matter of definition and/or debate. -- Embram 15:08, 16 March 2013 (UTC)