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Author:

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.

Title:

Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.

Edition:

Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed., 60th anniversary ed.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xvi, 249 p. ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Book burning--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
Totalitarianism--Fiction.
State-sponsored terrorism--Fiction.
Book burning.
Censorship.
State-sponsored terrorism.
Totalitarianism.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

Gaiman, Neil.
Eller, Jonathan R., 1952-

Notes:

"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns--". "The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; 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"--Cover p. [4].

Contents:

Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright --
History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller. Pt. 1. The story of Fahrenheit 451. The story of Fahrenheit 451 / by Jonathan R. Eller ; From The day after tomorrow: why science fiction? (1953) / by Ray Bradbury ; Listening library audio introduction (1976) / by Ray Bradbury ; Investing dimes: Fahrenheit 451 (1982, 1989) / by Ray Bradbury ; Coda (1979) / by Ray Bradbury -- Pt. 2. Other voices. The novel. From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / by Nelson Algren ; Books of the times / by Orville Prescott ; From New wine, old bottles / by Gilbert Highet ; New novels / by Idris Parry ; New fiction / by Sir John Betjeman ; 1984 and all that / by Adrian Mitchell ; From New maps of hell / by Sir Kingsley Amis ; Fahrenheit 451 / by Margaret Atwood ; The motion picture. Shades of Orwell / by Arthur Knight ; From The journal of Fahrenheit 451 / by François Truffaut.

Summary:

In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)847522046

Locations:

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