Fahrenheit 451
By: Ray Bradbury
Edition: Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition (12); 60th Anniversary Edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Published: 2013-06
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781451673319
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Totalitarianism; State-sponsored terrorism; Book burning; Censorship; Fiction
Other titles: Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one; Fahrenheit four fifty-one
Description: Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevent than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodoties, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Baiman; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren. Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others: rare manuscript pages and sketches from "Ray Bradbury's personal archive and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.
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