An edition of Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Fahrenheit 451

Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition (12); 60th Anniversary Edition
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An edition of Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Fahrenheit 451

Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition (12); 60th Anniversary Edition
  • 3.94 ·
  • 359 Ratings
  • 2242 Want to read
  • 118 Currently reading
  • 543 Have read

Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevent than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodoties, 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 then 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.

This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Baiman; 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 of world literature.
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Language
English
Pages
159

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Fahrenheit 451
2013-06, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Trade Paperback in English - Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition (12); 60th Anniversary Edition
Cover of: 华氏451
华氏451
2005, Zhong qing chu ban she
paperback in Chinese
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Fahrenheit 451
2003, Simon & Schuster
hardcover in English
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Fahrenheit 451
1996-08, Del Rey / Random House
paperback in English - 1st trade ed. (20)
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Fahrenheit 451
/1993, Del Rey / Ballantine Books
mass market paperback in English - First edition, second printing (25)
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Fahrenheit 451
/1993, FollettBound
library binding in English - 1991 Second printing (45)
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Fahrenheit 451
1991, Del Rey / Ballantine Books
mass market paperback in English - First edition, second printing
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Fahrenheit 451
1986, Macmillan of Canada
paperback in English
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Fahrenheit 451
1984-06, Del Rey / Ballantine Books
mass market paperback in English - Sixty-first printing
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Fahrenheit 451
1960, Corgi Books
Paperback in English - Corgi edition reprint

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Published in

New York, USA

Edition Notes

Other Titles
Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one, Fahrenheit four fifty-one
Copyright Date
2013

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3503.R167 F3 2003, PS3503.R167 F3 2013, PS3503.R167 F3 2012

Contributors

Introduction
Neil Gaiman

The Physical Object

Format
Trade Paperback
Pagination
xi, 159 p. ;
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26295928M
ISBN 10
1451673310
ISBN 13
9781451673319
LCCN
2003066160
OCLC/WorldCat
776937669, 1020467961
Alibris ID
9781451673319
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1451673310
Goodreads
44589006

Work Description

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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It was a pleasure to burn.
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