Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century literature.
It was a pleasure to burn. it was a special pleasure to see things eaten,to see things blackened andchanged.
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 houseThe 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 451stands alongside Orwell's1984and Huxley'sBrave New Worldas 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.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007491568Number of pages: 240Weight: 420 gDimensions: 227 x 159 x 23 mmEdition: Clothbound edition
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''Ray Bradbury's gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world'Barack Obama
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'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe'Guardian
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