Ray Bradbury - Biography - IMDb Ray Bradbury Biography Showing all 62 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (36) | Personal Quotes (18) Overview (4) 5' 8" (1.73 m) Mini Bio (1) Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven a car. He was born Ray Douglas Bradbury on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third son in the family. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a telephone lineman and technician. His mother, Esther Marie Bradbury (nee Moberg), was a Swedish immigrant. His grandfather and great-grandfather were newspaper publishers. In 1934 his family settled in Los Angeles, California. There young Bradbury often roller-skated through Hollywood, trying to spot celebrities.

He attended Los Angeles High School, where he was involved in the drama club and planned to become an actor. He graduated from high school in 1938 and had no more formal education. Instead, he learned from reading works of such writers as Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky , among others. From 1938-42 he was selling newspapers on the streets of Los Angeles, spending days in the local library and nights at the typewriter. At that time he published his stories in fanzines. In 1941 he became a paid writer when the pulp magazine Science Stories published his short story, titled "Pendulum", and he was a full-time writer by the end of 1942. His first book - "Dark Carnival" - was a collection of stories published in 1947. That same year he married Marguerite McClure (1922-2003), whom he met at a book store a year earlier. Maggie, as she was affectionately called, was the only woman Bradbyru ever dated. They had four daughters and, eventually, eight grandchildren.

Ray Bradbury shot to international fame after publication of "The Martian Chronicles" (1950), a collection of short stories partially based on ideas from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Then he followed the anti-Utopian writers Yevgeni Zamyatin and Aldous Huxley in his best known work, "Farenheit 451" (1953). The 1966 film adaptation ( Fahrenheit 451 (1966)) by director François Truffaut , starring Julie Christie , received several nominations. However, Bradbury was not happy with the 1980 TV adaptation ( The Martian Chronicles (1980), starring Rock Hudson ) of his story "The Martian Chronicles". His other novels and stories also have been adapted to films and television, as well as for radio, theatre and comic books. Bradbury had written episodes for Alfred Hitchcock 's TV series, as well as for many other TV productions. His total literary output is close to 600 short stories, more than 30 books and numerous poems and plays. He was writing daily. In 2004 Bradbury received a National Medal of Arts.

He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6644 Hollywood Blvd. An asteroid was named in his honor, "9766 Bradbury", and the Apollo astronaut named a crater on the moon "Dandelion Crater", after his novel, "Dandelion Wine". He also received the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from Science Fiction Writers of America, an Emmy Award for his work as a writer on "The Halloween Tree", and many other awards and honors. Ray Bradbury died on June 6, 2012, at the age of 91, in Los Angeles, California. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov Spouse (1) ( 27 September 1947 - 24 November 2003) (her death) (4 children) Trade Mark (2) Uses science fiction to explore existential and political ideals and the darker side of humanity Trivia (36) Father of four daughters: Susan, Ramona, Bettina and Alexandra. Son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, linesman with the Waukegan Bureau of Power and Light, and of Esther Marie Moberg.

He wrote the original manuscript of "Fahrenheit 451" on a rented typewriter in a public library, from handwritten notes and outlines. It first appeared in print in a shortened form (of about 25,000 words) in Galaxy magazine and later in its present length but in serial format in the just starting out Playboy magazine. Though considered by many to be the greatest science-fiction writer of the of the 20th century, he suffers from a fear of flying and driving. He has never learned to drive, and did not fly in an airplane until October 1982. National Public Radio's "Bradbury 13" (1984) was a 13-episode program based on many of his stories. Recipient of a 2004 National Medal of Arts, awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (USA). There is a noted irony in the names of two characters in his novel "Fahrenheit 451": "Montag" is also the name of a paper mill and "Faber" is a manufacturer of pencils. Ray Bradbury insists that this was unintentional. His original title for one of his novels was "The Fireman".

He called his local fire department and asked them what the temperature at which paper burns at - and was told "451 Fahrenheit". He reversed it to make it the title of his novel "Fahrenheit 451". He was the great-great-great grandson of Mary Bradbury, a woman who was tried in the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, but saved herself from being hanged for witchcraft. Had a series of short stories which his publisher said would never sell, so he linked the stories together, while living at a local YMCA, and created the novel "The Martian Chronicles". He was paid just $500 for the story. He voiced his displeasure at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore for appropriating the title of his book "Fahrenheit 451" for the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). However, Bradbury himself is the author of "Beyond 1984" (title appropriated from George Orwell 's "1984") and "Another Tale of Two Cities" (title appropriated from Charles Dickens ' "A Tale of Two Cities").

While book and story titles cannot be copyrighted, both Orwell and Dickens were long dead when Bradbury borrowed their titles, Bradbury was alive when Michael Moore did so and Moore never bothered to ask Bradbury's permission. As a bedtime story for each of his daughters, he read (in nightly installments) "Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle . As a young boy, a friend once ridiculed his collection of science fiction and comic books, and heckled him into throwing them away. A day later, Bradbury was heartbroken, feeling that he had trashed his best friends. He immediately rebuilt his collection. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999. He and famed animator Chuck Jones were close friends for more than 50 years. In Chaplin's Goliath (1996), a documentary about silent film star Eric Campbell , the Rosedale Cemetary spokeswoman mistakenly claims Ray Bradbury is interred there. A hero of his was the Italian director Federico Fellini . When they first met, as Bradbury claims, Fellini ran up to Bradbury, embraced him, and said "My twin! My twin!".

They became great friends but never collaborated on any projects. Bradbury claimed that his lifelong love of Halloween was soured after Fellini died on October 31, 1993. Paid tribute to in the music video "F**k Me, Ray Bradbury" by Rachel Bloom . Although he did not publicly comment on it, he was confirmed to have seen the video, and he met with Bloom. When his wife started having children, he stated, "It literally scared the hell out of me.". Had never enjoyed driving, and had always used either public transportation, or a bicycle. Despite the anti-censorship message of "Farenheit 451", Bradbury has continually had to fight his publisher's censors who want to tamper or alter the language and tone of the book. He says that the irony is obviously lost on them. As a young man, he once sold newspapers on a Los Angeles street corner. In 1950, he discovered that comic book publisher William M. Gaines (later famous for producing Mad magazine) had published several of his stories without his permission. Bradbury wrote Gaines a letter praising the artwork and treatment of his story, and politely asked for his royalty payment. He got it.

Lifelong friends of Ray Harryhausen and Forrest J. Ackerman , ever since they were teenagers and members of the same Los Angeles Science Fiction Club. Ray Bradbury was well-known and much-beloved in science fiction and fantasy circles for writing stories of nostalgia, much like Jack Finney and, to a lesser extent, Alfred Bester . He once visited the set of Star Trek (1966) as a potential writer for the series. Crew members remembered him as being being very polite and courteous, thinking he was already making himself at home. It later turned out that he never had any intention to join the writing team, but wanted to come anyway. He remained friends with series creator Gene Roddenberry until Gene's death. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6644 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 1, 2002. He was awarded Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand in 2007. Had a nod in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) with the ship named the USS Bradbury. Following his death, he was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

The inspiration for his short story "The Pedestrian" came after he and a friend were out walking one night, and a policemen stopped them and questioned them because he deemed their behavior suspicious. The policemen let them go with a warning not to do it again. When he was a baby, his mother tied him to an apple tree so she could keep an eye on him while she hung up the laundry. Didn't eat a regular meal with his family until he was 6 years old. His father got tired of him drinking a baby bottle every day and smashed it in the sink. After finishing high school, he didn't have the money to go to college so instead went down to his local library to read three nights a week. In 10 years' time, he read all the books in the library and considered that to be his higher education instead. In the 1920s, his mother took him with her when she went to see silent films. He first saw Lon Chaney 's The Phantom of the Opera (1925) when he was only three years old, and it had a lifelong impact on him.

Ray Bradbury passed away on June 5, 2012, two months away from what would have been his 92nd birthday on August 22. Personal Quotes (18) The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. Touch a scientist and you touch a child. [on writing "Fahrenheit 451"] I wasn't trying to predict the future. I was trying to prevent it. I am one of those fortunate people who were born to be joyful writers discovered the fact early on. Sense of humor is everything. You can do anything in this world if you have a sense of humor. Many directors, producers, people haven't learned that -- that if you just salt people down a little and put a bit of butter on them and make them happy, then we can all work together. There are two races of people - men and women - no matter what what women's libbers would have you pretend. Men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. Once you hear a metaphor of mine, you won't forget it.

A dinosaur falling in love with a lighthouse, boom, there's your metaphor. Once you hear that, you say, "Gee, I gotta read that, I wonder what happened?" All the great stories of the world are metaphorical, so they can be remembered. That's why so much stage writing and film writing today can't be remembered, because there are no metaphors. You can't tell the story when you come out of the theater. That's what's wrong with most modern fiction. Realism is what we already know. My job is to interpret realism, to turn it into metaphors, so you can swallow it. I'm the most cinematic writer around -- all of my short stories can be shot right off the page. I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention. I never question. I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. [on Ray Harryhausen ] Long after we are all gone, his shadow shows will live through a thousand years in this world. [on Lon Chaney ] He was someone who acted out our psyches. He got into the shadows inside our bodies. The history of Lon Chaney is the history of unrequited love.

I have fun with ideas. I play with them. I'm not a serious person and I don't like serious people. I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. After 9/11, Hollywood promised they were going to make more family films, less violence, and things of that sort, well it's never happened. Films have gotten more violent. The Bond films are unwatchable now; I was around 45 years ago when the Bond films began. They were nice quiet little films, every 5 minutes a little bit of action perhaps. But now there's an explosion every 5 minutes and they set off 10 billion gallons of gasoline, and there are more macho selves being made today, in which people settle things with guns, and with machine guns. So things have not improved. They've gotten worse. If you were to ask me what I think of Hollywood today, it's more of the same, except worse.

I grew up in Hollywood, I roller skated around here, and got autographs and photographs when I was 14 years old, so I know the community very well. But things have gotten worse, because we're making more money today out of doing lousy films. A good example is The Mummy, it came out when I was 12 years old, I loved the film with Boris Karloff, a very minor film with a minor amount of money, probably cost $100,000 or less. But it's a beautiful film, with a nice script. They made a new version here at Universal 5 years ago, it was a terrible film. They thought "If one mummy's scares you, 2 dozen mummies, a chorus line of mummies has got to be very scary." So the film came out, dreadful film, and it made $500 million. So they were encouraged into believing that doing lousy films is profitable; but even worse than the old days. So they did another film called The Mummy Returns, and it was even worse than the first one, and it made a billion dollars, so they were encouraged in going ahead to making lousy films instead of quality films.

So things haven't changed, they've just gotten bigger, and lousier. People say to me, "What is Hollywood's responsibility?". The responsibility of Hollywood is to prove that we are human. Not with happy endings, but with moments we take away and remember. See also Fahrenheit 451 not Firestarter by Ray Bradbury, First Edition - AbeBooks Fahrenheit 451 not Firestarter by Ray Bradbury, First Edition You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 35 1 Published by Ballantine, New York (1953) Used First Edition Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine, New York, 1953. First edition of one of the seminal works in the field of science fiction. Octavo, one of 200 numbered asbestos-bound copies signed by Bradbury. In fine condition, without wear. This example was put away from the time it was purchased upon publication. An exceptional copy. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Fahrenheit 451 remains Bradburyï¿½s most acclaimed work, with more than four million copies in print. "Frightening in its implications Mr.

Bradburyï¿½s account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating" (New York Times). Bookseller Inventory # 27011 Published by New York Ballantine Books, Inc. (1953) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: New York Ballantine Books, Inc., 1953. An Exceptional Copy of An Asbestos "Fahrenheit 451" BRADBURY, Ray. MUGNAINI, Joseph, [illustrator]. Fahrenheit 451. Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., [1953]. First edition, limited to 200 copies signed by Bradbury and bound by Johns-Manville Quinterra in a highly refined white asbestos. This being number 125. Not issued in dust jacket. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 134 mm). [8], 199, [2], [1, publisher's advertisement] pp. With black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's full white asbestos.

Front board and spine lettered in red. Housed in custom red half morocco clamshell. Spine slightly darkened, else fine. An exceptional copy of a book that is usually found in very poor condition. "[Bradbury's] novels include Fahrenheit 451 (1953), presenting a future totalitarian state in which supertelevision presents all that people are to think and know, and the ownership of books is cause for the state to burn both volumes and owners." (The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature). HBS 67717. $15,000. Bookseller Inventory # 67717 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books [1953]., New York, 1953. Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). Expanded from the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut.

"In a totalitarian state, books are burned and private thought or action is criminal." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-153. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55. A fine copy in fine white dust jacket with shallow 5x10 mm chip from top edge of front panel, tiny nick to lower front corner tip, and 7 mm closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel. A sharp copy. Enclosed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box. (#111876). Bookseller Inventory # 111876 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, New York, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy authentically SIGNED by the author. An attractive First Issue dustjacket that is vibrant in color with slight wear to the edges.

The book is bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL red cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO marks or bookplate in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. Includes a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1479967965699 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books [1953]., New York, 1953. Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). A short novel expanded from the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. "While the jet bombers boom overhead and another nuclear war threatens, Americans live a mindless life in a society where everyone is encouraged to lose himself in such distractions as four-wall television, hearing-aid radios, high-speed travel, and group sports. Life is reduced to the paste-pudding norm of a mass audience, for it serves the purpose of the government to keep people from thinking .

The gadget are, of course, marvelous and everywhere, while the greatest enemies of the status quo are books, which, when they are occasionally discovered, are burned by firemen who are, in this fireproof age, no longer needed to put out fires, but to set them ." - Hillegas, The Future as Nightmare, pp. 158-9. "In a totalitarian state, books are burned and private thought or action is criminal." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-153. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55. Lower edges of boards and corner tips lightly rubbed, a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with tiny 4 mm closed tear at upper edge of front panel and "451" and publishers logo on spine panel faded to light orange. Enclosed in a custom made clamshell box. (#155233).

Bookseller Inventory # 155233 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books [1953], New York, 1953. First edition. Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). Expansion of the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. ".hostility to books and ideas was generated by ordinary people, not simply imposed upon them by government." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-31. This was filmed in 1966 by François Truffaut with Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55. Some light rubbing to lower board edges and corner tips, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny 4 mm closed tear to upper front panel and fading to the orange ink on the spine to "451" and the publishers logo to a very light pale orange. Now housed in a custom made clamshell box. (16931).

Bookseller Inventory # 16931 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, New York, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good +. Joe Mugnaini (illustrator). #27 OF 200 COPIES ISSUED IN THIS, THE "ASBESTOS" BINDING, WHICH REPRESENTS THE TRUE 1ST INCARNATION OF "FAHRENHEIT 451". EACH OF THE 200 COPIES IS SIGNED BY RAY BRADBURY AT THE LIMITATION AND EACH IS "BOUND IN JOHN-MANVILLE QUINTERRA, AN ASBESTOS MATERIAL WITH EXCEPTIONAL RESISTANCE TO PYROLYSIS". This copy does show some wear to the boards. There's the customary soiling (almost impossible to avoid on this title) along the panels and there's also light staining to the bottom-edges (fairly innocuous at the front panel and pronounced along the rear panel). Tasteful bookplate as well to the front pastedown and very light wear to the spine crown and the front upper tip. Still though, solid and presentable.

The binding is very strong and, except for the bookplate, the book is very clean internally, with no writing or markings of any kind. Octavo, illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. Bookseller Inventory # 13115 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words "Copyright, 1953 by Ray Bradbury" printed on the copyright page with NO indication of later printing This copy is SIGNED by Ray Bradbury on the front endpaper. A beautiful dustjacket that is rich in color with NO fading, chips or tears. This original First Issue dustjacket has the printed price of $2.50 present on the front flap with slight wear to the spine. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight, with slight wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Ray Bradbury First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

Bookseller Inventory # ABE-11028490746 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, New York, 1953. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First trade edition. A Fine copy of the book, with a tiny bit of dust soiling to the top-edge of the closed page block, but otherwise perfect. In a bright, Near Fine dust jacket with one very small nick at the bottom of the front panel and with the red spine lettering one shade lightened, but with the original colors remarkably fresh and vivid. Most copies show little to no red color on the spine, this copy among the nicer examples we've seen.Bradbury's most famous work, about a dystopian future where books are banned - and burned. "Fahrenheit 451" appears on the New York Public Library's list of books of the century and won the 1954 American Academy of Letters Award in Arts and Literature.

Though the book is thought to be a comment on the political culture and McCarthyism at the time of its publication, the work also grew out of a number of ideas and themes Bradbury had explored in a few of his earlier published short stories. The book would later be adapted into a 1966 film directed by Francois Truffaut, which was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In a contemporary review in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, writer August Derleth called the book "a savage and shockingly prophetic view of one possible future way of life?compelling.". Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 1734 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, 1953. Book Condition: Good. Limited Numbered First Edition. The scarce Limited Numbered Edition signed by Ray Bradbury on the limitation page and numbered 33 of only 200 limited edition asbestos copies. PLUS additionally inscribed and signed by Bradbury on the verso of the front free endpaper in 1969 ("For Ted! With the good wishes of Montag's Friend/ Ray Bradbury/ Oct.

1969"), on the half-title page in 1982 (Ted--Once again! In June - 1982! With $1,000 worth of good wishes! / Ray Bradbury") and on the title page in 1990, ("Ted again! / Ray Bradbury / 6/15/90") -- all to the same owner, whose bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Octavo. 199 pages. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini. Publisher's binding of Johns-Manville Quinterra, "an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis." Lettering in red on cover boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Significant wear and soiling to the boards. Spine completely perished. Corners exposed. Minor toning to the endpapers. Every page is present and none are loose. The pages are lightly tanned from age but clean and complete. A good copy. Our highest book grades are Near Fine and Fine. Sold as is at greatly reduced price because of condition. Johns-Manville Quinterra Asbestos.

Bookseller Inventory # 4051 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, New York, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Ray Bradbury on the first page of the book. A stunning sophisticated dustjacket that is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. This original First Issue dustjacket has the printed price of $2.50 present on the front flap. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a stunning copy SIGNED by the author in collector's condition. We buy Bradbury First Editions. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-11028490748 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, New York, 1953. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in.

Octavo (20.25cm); red textured boards, with titles stamped in yellow on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 199, [3]pp. Hint of foxing to text edges and endpapers, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), absent chips, tears, or wear, and displays none of the typical fading to the spine colors; lightly foxed overall, most noticeably on the verso but evident on the outset; Near Fine. Bradbury's most enduring work, one of literature's great dystopias, and basis for François Truffaut's 1966 film starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. Not uncommon in the first edition - signed, inscribed or otherwise - but attractive jacketed copies are, this being one of the few advance copies we have seen or handled. Bookseller Inventory # 899 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Ray Bradbury on the front free endpaper.

An attractive price clipped dustjacket that has benefitted from some professional restoration. This original dustjacket has retained most of the vibrant colors with NO chips or tears. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor rubbing to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean. There is no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a sharp clean copy of this true first edition. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1102418586 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine books, Inc., 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. An attractive dustjacket that has benefitted from professional restoration by a master conservator. The end result is a dustjacket that is rich in color with no chips or tears. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this true first edition with the original dustjacket.

Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1254870828 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballatine Books, New York, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1953, with no mention of later printings on the copyright page. SIGNED by Bradbury on a bookplate; laid in. Book near fine. Jacket very good. Book has some rubbing along the edges and bending at the spine; previous owner's name is written on the front free endpage; else fine. Dust jacket has original price of $2.50 printed on front flap; very slight chipping at corners and spine edges; wrinkle on back cover. Comes housed in a custom slipcase. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 1312009 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing.

Boldly signed Stunning near fine crisp book with vibrant boards with a beautiful unclipped dust jacket. Curry binding D (no priority), the true first edition hardbound issue. Expanded from the novella ¿The Fireman¿, published in 1951. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. Boldly signed by Ray Bradbury in red marker on a loosely laid in bookplate. The book is in bright, crisp, near fine condition with clean cloth still retaining its original sheen and bright unfaded yellow titles to front and spine. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with no bookstore stamps, no stains and no inscriptions. The internal pages are clean, crisp and flat with no marks, no stains, no handling marks, no writing, no bent pages, no stains, and no foxing. Stunning clean, bright book appearing as unread. Please see detailed images. The original first edition dust jacket has benefited from slight restoration by an expert paper conservator and as such presents in near fine condition.

The jacket is bright and still retains the strong vibrant colors with the typical spine fading of the red tones to the title as typically found with this off-white jacket (the numbers ¿451¿ on the spine typically fade out). Otherwise the jacket is in great condition with no rips, no chips, no stains and no foxing. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of $2.50. Please see the many detailed images. The dust jacket is now protected in a new clear archival cover. A very handsome copy of this scarce, important Bradbury title with both a great unclipped dust jacket, and with a boldly signed bookplate. Presents beautifully on the shelf, in addition to making a wonderful investment. Would make a perfect gift for a Bradbury collector. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our Abe store for additional sci-fi listings. Bookseller Inventory # 000476 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing.

Boldly signed Stunning near fine crisp book with vibrant boards with a beautiful unclipped dust jacket. Curry binding D (no priority), the true first edition hardbound issue. Expanded from the novella ¿The Fireman¿, published in 1951. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. Boldly signed by Ray Bradbury in red marker on a loosely laid in bookplate. The book is in bright, crisp, near fine condition with clean cloth still retaining its original sheen and bright unfaded yellow titles to front and spine. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with no bookstore stamps, no stains and no inscriptions. The internal pages are clean, crisp and flat with no marks, no stains, no handling marks, no writing, no bent pages, no stains, and no foxing. Stunning clean, bright book appearing as unread. Please see detailed images. The original first edition dust jacket has benefited from slight restoration by an expert paper conservator and as such presents in near fine condition.

The jacket is bright and still retains the strong vibrant colors with the typical spine fading of the red tones to the title as typically found with this off-white jacket (the numbers ¿451¿ on the spine typically fade out). Otherwise the jacket is in great condition with no rips, no chips, no stains and no foxing. Very pale faint toning to rear panel, and a few very faint spots to front. (all hard to see even in the images).The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of $2.50. Please see the many detailed images. The dust jacket is now protected in a new clear archival cover. A very handsome copy of this scarce, important Bradbury title with both a great unclipped dust jacket, and with a boldly signed bookplate. Presents beautifully on the shelf. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 001019 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, New York, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A First Edition, First Printing. Very good or better in a like unclipped dust jacket.

SIGNED by the author on the front end paper. Some offsetting to front and rear end papers, edges of the boards rubbed with some loss on the back board. Jacket very nice, but with the spine faded and the red "451" barely legible. The bottom of the rear flap has a tiny piece missing, and the corner of each flap has tape remains. From the library of noted collector Larry Owens. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 5020 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, New York, 1953. Hardcover; 1st Printing. Book Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition.. 1st edition/1st printing, 1953 1st edition. From the collection of famous sci-fi book collector(s) Robert and Diane Yaspan.

Signed and Inscribed by the author in red felt-tip pen on a large piece of white paper that is NOT a bookplate (instead a piece of letter-sized stationery trimmed to fit) pasted on the book's front pastedown: 'Mar - 1974 For Robert Yaspan - This copy of the regular trade edition of "451" signed by Ray Bradbury.' Mr. Bradbury was of course differentiati ng between the 1st hardback trade edition owned by Mr. Yaspen vs. the asbestos-covered limited edition issued at the same time. The book is bound in red cloth with yellow printing (Curry binding D, no priority). Straight, clean, tight book with no soiling and no handwriting other than the author's in it, with crisp, clean pages, and with just a mere touch of shelfwear to spine ends/corners and 2 small 'very' slightly darkened cloth areas at the bottom edge of the boards.

The price intact ($2.50) dustjacket is clean and crisp with some of the usual fading of the red '451' on the spine (though still quite legible), and with some small, shallow edge chips and tears along its edges, primarily at spine ends, upper back edge and flap fold ends, none affecting any dustjacket lettering or the design (less than it looks like in our photos; there's some flash glare from the DJ protector). The dustjacket is entirely original - no restoration. It is now protected by a clear, removable dustjacket cover. The book is housed in a custom red cloth slipcase dating to the Yaspans in the 1970s that is in excellent condition. Very handsome presentation, and excellent provenance! Made into a very good movie in 1966 by Francois Truffaut, starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. This book is what really made Mr. Bradbury into a household name.; Signed by Author. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 9138 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books [1953]., New York, 1953.

Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). Expanded from the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. "In a totalitarian state, books are burned and private thought or action is criminal." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-153. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55. Boards lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, a solid very good copy in solid very good dust jacket with light fraying and shallow chipping at spine ends and upper corner tips, 45 mm closed tear at top edge of front flap fold which extends slightly into flap, and red "451" on spine panel faded. Overall the jacket is clean and presentable. (#100269).

Bookseller Inventory # 100269 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books [1953]., New York, 1953. Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). Expanded from the novella "The Fireman" published in 1951. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. "In a totalitarian state, books are burned and private thought or action is criminal." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-153. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55.

Boards lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, a solid very good copy in solid very good dust jacket with light fraying and shallow chipping at spine ends and upper corner tips, 45 mm closed tear at top edge of front flap fold which extends slightly into flap, and red "451" on spine panel faded. Overall the jacket is clean and presentable. (#126892). Bookseller Inventory # 126892 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books [1953], New York, 1953. First edition. Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-31. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8.

Boards lightly rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, a solid very good copy in solid very good dust jacket with light fraying and shallow chipping at spine ends and upper corner tips, 45 mm closed tear at top edge of front flap fold which extends slightly into flap, and red "451" on spine panel faded. Overall the jacket is clean and presentable. (10842). Bookseller Inventory # 10842 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, red boards, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. The hardbound trade issue. (Currey binding D [no priority]). Slip of paper signed and dated by Ray Bradbury laid in. Filmed in 1966 by Francois Truffaut. "In a totalitarian state, books are burned and private thought or action is criminal." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-153.

Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 8. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 749-55. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips at top of spine. Previous owner's name on front free end papper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 1511032 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Ballantine Books, NY, 1953. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good-. First US Edition. 199 pages. Signed by Author; Red paper covered boards lettered in yellow, no first edition statement and no additional printings noted as required. Signed by author on title page. Spine ends and corners bumped and edgeworn, some loss of color on spine edge and board edges. Pastedowns and endpapers lightly foxed, Arthur C. Hicks signature and 3/4/54 on front pastedown with a tiny ink offset on front free endpaper. Two pages have one word highlighted and the definition of the word written in the bottom margin; one in pencil, one in ink.

Pages pale tan, edges a bit darker. No dust wrapper.; Contains the title novel plus two additional short stories, ''The Playground'' and ''The Rock Cries Out''. Classic novel of the firemen required to set fires to burn banned books.and all books are banned. Basis for the film directed by Francois Truffaut, starring Oscar Werner and Julie Christie. When Mr. Bradbury signed this copy at one of the early LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA he said 'you don't see one of these very often.' The UCLA library was where Ray Bradbury wrote the short story "The Fireman". It was published in 'Galaxy Magazine' in 1951 and then expanded and published in 1953 as 'Fahrenheit 451' "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns".; Images are of actual copy on offer.

Bookseller Inventory # 7147 Fahrenheit 451: About | Lit Note | Test Prep | Study Guide | CliffsNotes Fahrenheit 451 Bookmark this page Manage My Reading List Introduction Critics find Bradbury's most interesting years the post-World War II years, 1947-57, a period that roughly corresponds to a time when science fiction authors began to approach their subject matter seriously and were creating characters who had psychological complexity and ambiguity. During this decade, Bradbury produced some of his most vital works: Dark Carnival (Arkham House, 1947); the amazing Martian Chronicles(Doubleday, 1950), his first and perhaps finest science fiction work; the short story collections The Illustrated Man (Doubleday, 1951) and The Golden Apples of the Sun (Doubleday, 1953); and Dandelion Wine(Doubleday, 1957), a short novel that has attained the status of being a minor American classic.

During this period, Bradbury also produced "The Fireman," a short story that appeared in the second issue of Galaxy Science Fiction (February 1951) and was expanded into Fahrenheit 451 (October 1953), his best and best-known novel. Initially published by Ballantine with two other stories, "The Playground" and "And the Rock Cried Out," Fahrenheit 451 was not published separately until the Ballantine paperback release in April 1960. Major Theme of Fahrenheit 451 Interestingly, the impetus for the characters and the situation of Fahrenheit 451 date earlier than "The Fireman." They first appeared during the years immediately following World War II, as Bradbury reveals in his introduction to Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (Bantam, 1975): This story ["Pillar of Fire," Planet Stories, Summer 1948], this character . . . I see now were rehearsals for my later novel and film Fahrenheit 451.

If Montag is a burner of books who wakens to reading and becomes obsessed with saving mind-as-printed-upon-matter, then Lantry [protagonist of "Pillar of Fire"] is the books themselves, he is the thing to be saved. In an ideal world, he and Montag would have met, set up shop, and lived happily ever after: library and saver of libraries, book and reader, idea and flesh to preserve the idea. By Bradbury's own admission, the thematic obsession that explicitly emerges in Fahrenheit 451 is the burning of books, the destruction of mind-as-printed-upon-matter. And although Bradbury never uses the word "censorship" in the novel, one should be aware that he is deeply concerned with censorship. Book burning is a hyperbolic phrase that describes the suppression of writing, but the real issue of the novel is censorship. If "Pillar of Fire" is read sensitively, one finds that not all books are in danger in the future dystopia (an imaginary world where people lead dehumanized, fearful lives), but particular kinds, or genres, of books are at risk.

This theme, of course, is not precisely true of Fahrenheit 451 in which all books that are burned by the "firemen" are in danger. This novel may be understood as a kind of hyperbolic extension of the tensions of the earlier story. Bradbury's observation about "Pillar of Fire" (1948) begs the questions: What are the social and/or economic forces that caused such a thematic obsession to emerge in Bradbury's work from the period 1948-53? Why are only books of imagination, fantasy, and the macabre and occult threatened in "Pillar of Fire"? Works by fantasists are also threatened in Bradbury's story "Usher II" (1950), which appears in The Martian Chronicles (1950). "Pillar of Fire" thus becomes a rehearsal for the themes of "Usher II," and the latter story appears to inhabit the same imaginative realm as does "The Firemen" published in 1951.

("The Firemen" was written during the same period as "Usher II" and is copyrighted 1950.) Indeed, the character of William Lantry in "Pillar of Fire" and the character of William Stendahl in "Usher II" are quite similar, as are the authors whose books are threatened — Poe, Bierce, and other American fantasists. Moreover, a Burning Crew is referred to in "Usher II," one that eventually burns Stendahl's beloved library of imaginative literature, and the Burning Crew is obviously a synonym for the firemen in Fahrenheit 451. The question may be asked in another way: Why is Bradbury sensitive to the popular condemnation of fantasy literature? By extension, this question becomes an issue of the literary merit of works of popular literature. Why is Bradbury particularly sensitive to the critical reception of fantasy literature during the post-World War II period? The question becomes even more problematic when one considers that Bradbury himself was publishing science fiction and fantasy in legitimate magazines, or slicks, such as Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post, not in the pulps, or disreputable magazines.

As Peter Nicholls observes, "[Bradbury's] career remains the biggest breakthrough into lush markets made by any genre of writer" (1985). Genre Science Fiction Far from traditional literary discussion, the questions posed may offer another way of reading the novel — as genre science fiction. After all, Bradbury's obsessions with the suppression of fantasy literature may express, at the psychological level, the wrestling with the validity of his own career as a fantasist. Fahrenheit 451 represents Bradbury's first published novel, written at a time when — according to Brian W.

Aldiss (Schocken, 1974) — "science fiction was still a minority cult, little known to any but its devotees." In his brief authorial statement appended to the beginning of The October Country (Ballantine, 1955), an abridgement of his earlier collection Dark Carnival (1947), Bradbury feels compelled to tell his readers that "[This book] will present a side of my writing that is probably unfamiliar to them, and a type of story that I rarely have done since 1948." By 1955 (during a time when his earliest work was out-of-print), Bradbury was aware of his (perhaps undeserved) reputation as a science fiction writer and was attempting to present to his readership an aspect of his work with which they were unfamiliar. Unsurprisingly, his next published book after The October Country, Dandelion Wine (Doubleday, 1957), is not science fiction, but a tour de force of juvenalia — specifically, a celebration of adolescence and the life-affirming value of the imagination.

With the exception of A Medicine for Melancholy (Doubleday, 1959), a collection of short stories dominated by science fiction selections, Bradbury has rarely returned to science fiction. (Collections such as R is for Rocket [1962] and S is for Space [1966] only recycle earlier stories.) But another aspect of Fahrenheit 451 is equally interesting: The suppression and condemnation of imaginative literature (viewed earlier as synecdoche for popular literature) represent the development of an increasingly oppressive political organization that wishes to deny originality and idiosyncrasy. Fahrenheit 451 uses the science fiction motif of dystopia — a totalitarian, highly centralized, and, therefore, oppressive social organization that sacrifices individual expression for the sake of efficiency and social harmony, all of which are achieved through technocratic means. The reader may examine the episodes of Dandelion Wine — the book most contiguous with Fahrenheit 451 (disregarding The October Country) — originally published as "The Happiness Machine" and "The Trolley" (Good Housekeeping, Vol. 141 No. 1, July 1955.).

The former story views technology as unable to provide for — and as even opposed to — human happiness; the latter story views technological innovation as solely efficient, as oppressive, and, perhaps, as even protofascist. In fact, one may find that Dandelion Wine, published after Bradbury became labeled as a formidable science fiction writer, views technology and technological innovation as inconsequential in solving basic human problems. This view is apparent in Fahrenheit 451. For example, note the marital problems between Montag and his wife — even though their home is full of technological contrivances specifically designed for domestic bliss — or explore the motivation for the development of the Mechanical Hound as a vehicle of social control via terrorist means. Historical Influences for Fahrenheit 451 Despite all the rich possibilities of exploration in Fahrenheit 451, the issue of book burning, or censorship, remains most central to the novel and is the most difficult issue with which to grapple. In essence, book burning is synonymous with irrationality in the twentieth century.

The genesis of Fahrenheit 451 was presumably contagious with the period of Nazi anti-intellectualism during the late 1930s, and book burning certainly became a synonym for anti-intellectualism in science fiction of the 1950s — as it was in Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959). Fahrenheit 451 emerged during a period of extreme interest in what Brian W. Aldiss calls "an authoritarian society" that roughly corresponds to the years 1945-1953, as revealed in George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1948); B.F. Skinner's Walden Two (1948); Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952); Evelyn Waugh's Love Among the Ruins (1953); and Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants (1953). Moreover, the postwar period also produced several novels and films concerned with the possibilities of nuclear holocaust, which hovers over Montag's world throughout the novel.

The novel also appears during the era known as the McCarthy period, the postwar political climate characterized by xenophobia, blacklisting, and censorship. In June 1949, for example, Representative John S. Wood asked some seventy colleges to submit their textbooks for examination and approval by the Un-American Activities Committee. Bradbury himself (Nation, May 2, 1953), in an article on science fiction as social criticism, suggested that "when the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy." Many of the issues explored in the novel cannot be separated from the historical period in which they appeared. This assertion is not to say, however, that they are no longer relevant or timely issues. Indeed, the novel evidently held a particular fascination for readers in the 1980s when censorship in schools and libraries resurged. Although the novel initially went through six printings in its first twelve years (1953-1965), it went through twenty printings in the next five years (1966-1971) and has been in print since its initial publication.

As stated earlier, Fahrenheit 451 is Bradbury's best-known novel, which, incidentally, happens to be science fiction. The novel need not, nor should it be, read only by science fiction or fantasy enthusiasts. Fahrenheit 451 is, among other things, a genuine cultural document of the early 1950s as well as a book of great imagination — regardless of its genre. Ray Bradbury and the dime-at-a-time typewriter of 'Fahrenheit 451' | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury and the dime-at-a-time typewriter of 'Fahrenheit 451' June 6, 2012 | 12:16 pm Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451" was an instant hit, and has remained in print since its publication in 1953. In its futuristic dystopia, learning is forbidden and books are banned. As the book explains in its opening pages, Fahrenheit 451 is "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns." While the book may be the most lasting way that Bradbury has been remembered, the circumstances of its creation are less well known.

In Los Angeles in the early 1950s, Ray Bradbury went in search of a peaceful place to work. "I had a large family at home," he said five decades later. They must have been a particularly lively bunch, because at the time it was just Ray, his wife Marguerite and two young children. The writing refuge Bradbury found was in the basement of the Lawrence Clark Powell Library at UCLA -- and in fact, it wasn't all that quiet. "I heard this typing," he explained. "I went down in the basement of the UCLA library and by God there was a room with 12 typewriters in it that you could rent for 10 cents a half-hour. And there were eight or nine students in there working away like crazy." So he went to the bank and returned with a bag of dimes. He plugged a dime into the machine, typed fast for 30 minutes, and then dropped another. When he took breaks, he went upstairs to the library, soaking in a book-loving ambience he was making forbidden in the fiction he was writing below. He took books off the shelves, finding quotes, then ran downstairs to write some more.

Nine days -- and $9.80 in dimes later -- he'd written "Fahrenheit 451." Almost. What he'd finished there was "The Fireman," a short story published in Galaxy magazine in 1951. Later, he expanded the story into "Fahrenheit 451," which was published in paperback by Ballantine. When "Fahrenheit 451" was selected as one of the books for the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read project, Bradbury said , "My God, what a place to write that book!" RELATED: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 | Malden Public Library | BiblioCommons Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Print "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes." For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world's most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 , the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature. Including an original foreword by Ray Bradbury and fully depicting the brilliance and force of his canonic and beloved masterwork, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is an exceptional, haunting work of graphic literature. Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, 2009 Edition: 1st ed t tigerlily_13 Jul 22, 2016 Even though I'm not really a fan of graphic novels, I felt this was a timely and good version of Fahrenheit 451. In this day of too much, entertainment media, we need to heed its warning and not stop reading--and seeking knowledge. Great book for Summer Reading/Break.

Like t TheMadTabby Oct 18, 2012 How ironic...."It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals." Like Missumuch Jul 02, 2012 I love the movie best. Through my college teacher, Mr. Bradbury sent me an autographed copy which I treasure. But I love the movie, the first time seeing when I was 8, and I love the French director Truffau anyway so it was all heaven to me. My mother was a Ph Beta Kappa and a librarian, so because of her influence it shook me up as a child to see books burned, and by 4th grade I even had memorized my own 3 books just in case:" Dairy of Ann Frank", "Catcher in the Rye", and "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings". All of which I could recite at will, because of this movie.

Thank you, Bradbury. Like unbalancedbutfair Jul 02, 2012 Well done. I the should say that I was not a huge fan of the novel though I'm glad I read it. The graphic novel does condense a lot of it without really losing much. Most importantly, the introduction to this adaptation is written by Ray Bradbury, and is well worth the read. He positsquestion: which book would you save? And that is a question that gave me pause to think. So read it if you enjoyed the novel. Read it if you don't want to read the novel. It's worth your time, for the introduction alone if nothing else. Like

Question: Which Ray Bradbury book was expanded and had the original title ‘The Fireman’?
Answer: Fahrenheit 451