
eBOOK
Fahrenheit 451
The gripping and inspiring classic of dystopian science fiction
By: Ray Bradbury
eBook | 14 February 2013
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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.
Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.
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, forty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
Industry Reviews
'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
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ISBN: 9780007496969
ISBN-10: 0007496966
Published: 14th February 2013
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers