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Fahrenheit 451
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation
By: Ray Bradbury
Paperback | 3 November 2008
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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 civilisation'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.
About The Author
Ray Bradbury has published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles.
Industry Reviews
The Times
'Fahrenheit 451 is the most skilfully drawn of all science fiction's conformist hells'
Kingsley Amis
'Bradbury's is a very great and unusual talent'
Christopher Isherwood
'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe'
Guardian
'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination'
Spectator
'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else'
Daily Telegraph
'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas -- with dsicipline'
Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: 9780006546061
ISBN-10: 0006546064
Series: Flamingo Modern Classic Ser.
Published: 3rd November 2008
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 230
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 12.5 x 2
Weight (kg): 0.19
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