Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

ISBN: 9780006546061

Subjects: Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Political, Dystopian,

Published year: 1993

Binding: Paperback

Description: <p>The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.</p> <p>Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.</p> <br> <br> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

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