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Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Ray
Bradbury Ray (Bradbury Ray)
SKU: VV1154811 ISBN: 9780006546061 Pages: 227 Paperback year: 1993 Publicher: Harpercollins (Harpercollins) Price: $53.08 ship 24-25
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| 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. |