Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Nearly seventy 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 relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, 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 when 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.

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Read all the classics by Ray Bradbury! Nearly seventy 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 relevant than ever before. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. An unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic. A kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth—as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world. Discover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclass, part memoir. Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor—of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Bradbury believed that, someday, a collection of his letters could illuminate the story of his life in new ways. That story emerges across time and memory from the pages of Remembrance.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎

1451673310

Publisher ‏ : ‎

Simon & Schuster

Publication date ‏ : ‎

January 10, 2012

Edition ‏ : ‎

Reissue

Language ‏ : ‎

English

Print length ‏ : ‎

249 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎

9781451673319

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎

978-1451673319

Item Weight ‏ : ‎

2.31 pounds

Reading age ‏ : ‎

15+ years, from customers

Dimensions ‏ : ‎

5.5 x 0.8 x 8.44 inches

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#2 in Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature

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