Fahrenheit 451 /
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2013].
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| Edition: | Sixtieth anniversary edition. |
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| Summary: | Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family.' But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with 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, rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury' s personal archive and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic world literature. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781451673265 1451673264 |