Fahrenheit 451
Subtitle: the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ...
By: Ray Bradbury
Edition: 50th Anniversary ed. (47)
Publisher: Del Rey / Ballentine Books
Published: 2003?
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780345342966
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Science fiction; Book burning; Censorship; Fiction
Description: The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag 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 or 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...

--back cover
Notes: US / CAN edition

Afterword (c1982) by Ray Bradbury. Coda (c1979) by Ray Bradbury.

"A Del Rey book."

Includes "A conversation with Ray Bradbury."