Dandelion Wine

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Dandelion Wine is a nostalgic semi-autobiographical novel by Ray Bradbury that captures the magic and melancholy of a boy’s summer in a small Midwestern town.

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instanceOf book
novel
adaptedAs Dandelion Wine self-linksurface differs
surface form: 1997 television film "Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine"
alsoAppealsTo young adult readers
author Ray Bradbury
basedOn Ray Bradbury's childhood experiences in Waukegan, Illinois
composedOf interconnected short stories
containsMotif dandelion wine as a symbol of preserved summer memories
new tennis shoes
ravine
trolley rides
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followedBy Something Wicked This Way Comes
genre coming-of-age novel
fantasy
fiction
semi-autobiographical fiction
hasForm fix-up novel
hasSequel Farewell Summer
hasTheme childhood
imagination
memory
mortality
nostalgia
passage of time
small-town life
includedIn American high school literature curricula
language English
literaryMovement 20th-century American literature
mainCharacter Douglas Spaulding
Grandfather Spaulding
Grandmother Spaulding
Tom Spaulding
mediaType print
narrativePerspective third-person
notableFor blend of realism and fantasy
evocation of Midwestern small-town atmosphere
lyrical prose style
originalPublisher Doubleday
pageCount approximately 239 pages
partOfSeries Green Town series
precededBy short stories later collected into the novel
publicationYear 1957
publisherType commercial publisher
settingLocation fictional town of Green Town, Illinois
settingRegion Midwestern United States
targetAudience adult readers
timePeriod summer of 1928
workOf Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury notableWork Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine adaptedAs Dandelion Wine self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 1997 television film "Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine"