Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2013, 1995Edition: 60th anniversary edition ; First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781451673265
- Fahrenheit four fifty-one
- Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one
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| FIC BRA McGruber's folly / | FIC BRA Lusty winter / | FIC BRA The commodore's barge is alongside / | FIC Bradb Fahrenheit 451 / | FIC Bradf The Ravenscar dynasty / | FIC Bradf Breaking the rules / | FIC Bradf Being Elizabeth / |
Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, c1953.
"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ..."--Title page.
"The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; 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 ..."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright --
History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller. Pt. 1. The story of Fahrenheit 451. The story of Fahrenheit 451 / by Jonathan R. Eller ; From The day after tomorrow: why science fiction? (1953) / by Ray Bradbury ; Listening library audio introduction (1976) / by Ray Bradbury ; Investing dimes: Fahrenheit 451 (1982, 1989) / by Ray Bradbury ; Coda (1979) / by Ray Bradbury -- Pt. 2. Other voices. The novel. From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / by Nelson Algren ; Books of the times / by Orville Prescott ; From New wine, old bottles / by Gilbert Highet ; New novels / by Idris Parry ; New fiction / by Sir John Betjeman ; 1984 and all that / by Adrian Mitchell ; From New maps of hell / by Sir Kingsley Amis ; Fahrenheit 451 / by Margaret Atwood ; The motion picture. Shades of Orwell / by Arthur Knight ; From The journal of Fahrenheit 451 / by François Truffaut.
In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
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