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Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury.
The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451673265
- ISBN: 1451673264
- ISBN: 9781982102609
- Physical Description: xi, 249 pages : hardcover ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
- Copyright: ©1953
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, c1953. |
| Target Audience Note: | 890L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 7 736. |
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| Subject: | State-sponsored terrorism > Fiction. Totalitarianism > Fiction. Book burning > Fiction. Censorship > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Political fiction. Science fiction. Satirical literature. |
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Fahrenheit 451 : A Novel
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Fahrenheit 451 : A Novel
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
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