| Description |
227 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock |
| Analysis |
Dystopias |
| Notes |
Originally published: Great Britain: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954 |
| Subject |
Book burning -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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Dystopias.
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Dystopias.
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Science fiction.
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Teenage dystopias
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Teen fiction
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Reading nook.
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| ISBN |
9780007491568 (hardback) |
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