Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-20121993
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Total copies: 2
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. 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 novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
Main title:
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury.
Author:
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012, author
Work:
Edition:
Flamingo modern classic.
Imprint:
London : Flamingo, 1993.©1954
Collation:
172 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
First published: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954.
ISBN:
9780006546061 (paperback)9780006546061 (pbk)9780006546061 (paperback)9780006546061 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54820813.00
Language:
English
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BRN:
138576