Fahrenheit 451
By: Ray Bradbury.
Edition: Simon & Schuster Classic Edition (8)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780743247221
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: State-sponsored terrorism -- Fiction; Totalitarianism -- Fiction; Book burning -- Fiction; Censorship -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one
Description: Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new introduction by the author and a message that is more relevant today than when it was first published.

Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than five million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451—originally published in 1953— remains his most acclaimed work.

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns. Fahrenheit 451 is a novel set in the (perhaps near) future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by a totalitarian "brave new world" regime. The hero, according to Mr. Bradbury, is "a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch."

Today, when libraries and schools in this country and all over the world are still "burning" certain books, Fahrenheit 451 remains a brilliantly readable and suspenseful work of even greater impact and timeliness.
--front flap
Notes: With a new introduction by the author.