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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns Mass market paperbound - 1987
by Ray D. Bradbury
About this book
Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel that presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era.
Bradbury combined two of his early short stories, "The Pedestrian" and "Bright Phoenix," into The Fireman, a novella published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Bradbury's publisher at Ballantine Books then suggested that he expand the work to make into a novel—Fahrenheit 451.
Bradbury combined two of his early short stories, "The Pedestrian" and "Bright Phoenix," into The Fireman, a novella published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Bradbury's publisher at Ballantine Books then suggested that he expand the work to make into a novel—Fahrenheit 451.
Summary
Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames... never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.
Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think... and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!
First Edition Identification
Fahrenheit 451 was first published as a novel by Ballantine Books in New York in 1953. First edition copies signed by Bradbury sell for $15,000-$18,000. A limited-edition was released by the publisher in late 1953 of 200 signed copies that were bound in asbestos (to make them fireproof).
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- Title Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
- Author Ray D. Bradbury
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 190
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Del Rey Books, Westminster, Maryland, USA
- Date 1987-08-12
- ISBN 9780345342966 / 0345342968
- Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 6.76 x 5.12 x 0.6 in (17.17 x 13.00 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 890
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Political fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 53011280
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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