Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 1451673310
- ISBN 13
- 9781451673319
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About This Item
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. 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 then 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.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ2363767
- Title
- Fahrenheit 451
- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 60th Anniversary Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1451673310
- ISBN 13
- 9781451673319
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2012-01-10
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