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Fahrenheit 451 (Flamingo Modern Classics): A Novel
Paperback
by Bradbury, Ray
- Publisher : Flamingo (1999), Edition: 1, 240 pages
- Language : English
- Paperback :
- ISBN-10 : 6546064
- ISBN-13 : 9780006546061
- Weight : 0.23
- Dimensions : 19.7×1.6×12.9 cm
Fahrenheit 451 (Flamingo Modern Classics): A Novel by Ray Bradbury (1999)
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ISBN-10: 0006546064
ISBN-13: 9780006546061
Goodreads: 200033014
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Publisher: HarperVoyager
Published: //2008
Note: alternate cover edition can be found here
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 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 classic of twentieth-century literature which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock. --back cover
4.0 rating based on 2,653,042 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0006546064
ISBN-13: 9780006546061
Goodreads: 200033014
Author(s):
Published: //2008
Note: alternate cover edition can be found here
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 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 classic of twentieth-century literature which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock. --back cover
