Anthologies

Something Strange

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Information

• First edition:
  • Macmillan, 1969, US.
    • Edited by Marjorie B. Smiley, Mary Delores Jarmon and Domenica Paterno
• Contains:
  • "The Wish"
  • "The Jam" by Henry Slezar
  • "The Hitch-Hiker" by Lucille Fletcher
  • "Zero Hour" by Ray Bradbury
  • "The Mermaid's Comb" by Harley Neita
  • "The Witch of Coöaut;s" by Robert Frost
  • "Her Strong Enchantments Falling" by A.E. Houseman
  • "A Night in Odessa" by Louis Simpson
  • "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats
  • "The Lonely" by Rod Serling
  • "I, Robot" by Eando Binder
  • "Who Can Replace a Man?" by Brian W. Aldian
  • "Men Are Different" by Alan Block
  • "Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson
  • "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin
  • "The Term" by William Carlos Williams
  • "Going Into Space" by Arthur C. Clarke
  • "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
  • "Epistle To Be Left in the Earth" by Archibald MacLeish
  • "The Place of the Gods" by Stephen Vincent Benet
  • "The End of the World" by Archibald MacLeish
  • "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier

Teacher Resources

• "The Wish"
  • Classroom Activities
    • Includes a number of questions and exercises pertaining to the story

Cover Illustration

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