It was a pleasure to burn. it was a special pleasure to see things eaten,to see things blackened and changed.
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 1984and 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.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780006546061Number of pages: 192Weight: 230 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
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'Another indispensible classic'The Times
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'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe'Guardian
'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose,similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination'Spectator
'As a science fiction writer,Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else'Daily Telegraph
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