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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...
--back cover
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Mechanical Hound, girl next door, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Terrorismo estatal, Censura, Novela, Totalitarismo, science fiction, political fiction, satire, Zukunft, State-sponsored terrorism, Totalitarianism, Book burning, Censorship, Fiction, American Science fiction, Fictional Works, Terrorism, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, dystopian, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, political, Drama, Large type books, American literature, award:retro_hugo, Terrorismo, Totalitarianisms, Bücherverbrennung, Terrorisme d'État, Romans, nouvelles, Totalitarisme, Autodafé de livresPeople
Guy Montag, Captain Beatty, Clarisse McClellanShowing 11 featured editions. View all 184 editions?
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Fahrenheit 451
2013-03, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
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Fahrenheit 451
2013-06, Simon and Schuster
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Fahrenheit 451
2006?, Ballantine Books
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Fahrenheit 451: Science-fiction-Roman
1978, Heyne
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A Del Rey Book
Twitter and Facebook are mentioned on the ad pages; this edition must cannot be earlier than 2006.
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Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns": the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.
The novel has been the subject of interpretations focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas for change. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature.
In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. It later won the Prometheus "Hall of Fame" Award in 1984 and a "Retro" Hugo Award, one of a limited number of Best Novel Retro Hugos ever given, in 2004. Bradbury was honored with a Spoken Word Grammy nomination for his 1976 audiobook version.
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