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''Dandelion Wine'' is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The novel developed from the short story "Dandelion Wine" which appeared in the June 1953 issue of ''Gourmet'' magazine. The title refers to a wine made with dandelion petals and other ingredients, commonly citrus fruit. In the story, dandelion wine, as made by the protagonist's grandfather, serves as a metaphor for packing all of the joys of summer into a single bottle. 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. ==Background and origins== Bradbury noted in "Just This Side of Byzantium," a 1974 essay used as an introduction to the book, ''Dandelion Wine'' is a recreation of a boy's childhood, based upon an intertwining of Bradbury's own experiences and imagination. ''Farewell Summer'', the official sequel to ''Dandelion Wine'', was published in October 2006. While ''Farewell Summer'' is a direct continuation of the plot of ''Dandelion Wine'', ''Something Wicked This Way Comes'', a novel with a completely different plot and characters, is often paired with the latter because of their stylistic and thematic similarities. Together, the three novels form a Green Town trilogy. A fourth volume, ''Summer Morning, Summer Night'', published in 2008, contains twenty-seven Green Town stories and vignettes, seventeen of which had never been published before.〔Subterranean Press, (''Summer Morning, Summer Night'' ). ISBN 978-1-59606-202-3.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dandelion Wine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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