The Golden Apples of the Sun
 The Golden Apples of the Sun is an anthology of 22 short stories (32 in the 1997 edition) by Ray Bradbury; it was first published in 1953.The book's namesake is one of the short stories in the collection. Bradbury drew the title for the story from the last line of the final stanza to W. B. Yeats' poem The Song of Wandering Aengus (1899):The last three lines of the poem are included in the beginning of the book as well.