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Ray Bradbury has captured the spirit of youthful summers like few others ever could in his Greentown Series, brought to an end with the third book, Farewell Summer .  In it, we continue to follow the story of thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his younger brother Tom, as they try their best to resist the inevitable tides of change, going as far as declaring war on old age itself.

Ray Bradbury has forever cemented his legacy as one of the titans of literature, with many of his works considered essential classics today. As is the case with most authors of this calibre, some of his stories went more under the radar than other ones despite being no worse, and it feels to me Dandelion Wine is one of them, following the story of the twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his one magical summer of 1928.

The Power of Melancholy Nostalgia is a feeling that comes us over every single one of us at some point or another, whether we're simply lost in the carefree days of our childhood or just daydreaming of a time when things were better. For the most part, we can only experience that feeling in relation to our own past; after all, how can one feel nostalgic for something they never had? Nevertheless, that's exactly what Ray Bradbury does to us in his classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes : he makes us yearn for a time and a life we've never lived.