Fahrenheit 451
Edition: 1st trade ed. (20)
Publisher: Del Rey / Random House
Published: 1996-08
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780345410016
Copyright date: 1982
Description: Guy Mongag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he 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 Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...
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