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    Time Enough at Last
    Time Enough at Last
    Time Enough at Last
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    Time Enough at Last

    By Lyn Venable

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Time Enough at Last
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    Lyn Venable

    Marilyn A. Venable (born about 1927) is an American writer known as Lynn Venable or Lyn Venable. Venable's short story "Time Enough at Last" (If Magazine 1953) was adapted for television as an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1959, starring Burgess Meredith. The story is frequently anthologized and discussed by scholars, who note that it was published in the same year as Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and includes similar themes about reading and books.

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      Time Enough at Last - Lyn Venable

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Time Enough at Last, by Lyn Venable

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Time Enough at Last

      Author: Lyn Venable

      Release Date: June 1, 2010 [EBook #32633]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME ENOUGH AT LAST ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction January 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      The atomic bomb meant, to most people, the end.

      To Henry Bemis it meant something far different—a thing to appreciate and enjoy.

      Time Enough At Last

      By Lynn Venable

      or a long time, Henry Bemis had had an ambition. To read a book. Not just the title or the preface, or a page somewhere in the middle. He wanted to read the whole thing, all the way through from beginning to end. A simple ambition perhaps, but in the cluttered life of Henry Bemis, an impossibility.

      Henry had no time of his own. There was his wife, Agnes who owned that part of it that his employer, Mr. Carsville, did not buy. Henry was allowed enough to get to and from work—that in itself being quite a concession on Agnes'

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