Fahrenheit 451
by Bradbury, Ray.
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BookPublisher: Harper Voyager 2008Edition: .Description: 230 pages.ISBN: 9780006546061.Subject(s): -- | -- | --
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, �Fahrenheit 451� stands alongside Orwell�s �1984� and Huxley�s �Brave New World� as a prophetic account of Western civilization�s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury�s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
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