Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury.
Tale concerns censorship and anti-intellectualism, carried on in an alternate society that conducts huge book burnings as part of the social agenda. Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345342966
- ISBN: 0345342968
- Physical Description: 179 p. ; 18 cm.
- Edition: 50th anniversary ed.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 1991, c1953.
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General Note: | "A Del Rey book." Afterword copyright 1982 by author. |
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Subject: | Science fiction, American. Totalitarianism > Fiction. Short stories. State-sponsored terrorism > Fiction. Book burning > Fiction. Censorship > Fiction. |
Genre: | Science fiction. Classic fiction. |
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