Fahrenheit 451 Paperback – January 10, 2012 by Ray Bradbury

Description

Author: Ray Bradbury

Brand: Simon & Schuster

Color: Multi-colored

Edition: 1

Features:

• Fahrenheit 451;9781451673319;1451673310

Package Dimensions: 29x209x508

Number Of Pages: 249

Release Date: 10-01-2012

Details: Product Description
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.
Review
“Brilliant . . . Startling and ingenious . . . Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.” —Orville Prescott,
The New York Times

“A masterpiece . . . A glorious American classic everyone should read: It’s life-changing if you read it as a teen, and still stunning when you reread it as an adult.” —Alice Hoffman,
The Boston Globe

“The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarates . . . His is a very great and unusual talent.” —Christopher Isherwood,
Tomorrow

“One of this country’s most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic.” —Michael Dirda,
The Washington Post
About the Author
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including
Fahrenheit 451,
The Martian Chronicles,
The Illustrated Man, and
Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s
Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay
The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for
The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.