Fahrenheit 451, 9780007491568
Hardcover
Books are outlawed. Firemen burn them. What happens when one questions?

Fahrenheit 451

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  • Hardcover

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    16 April 2013

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Summary

Voyager Classics – timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy.

A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 – a masterwork of twentieth-century literature.

Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.

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 discor…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780007491568
ISBN-10:0007491565
Author:Ray Bradbury
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:HarperVoyager
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:240
Edition:Clothbound edition
Release Date:16 April 2013
Weight:390g
Dimensions:227mm x 159mm x 24mm
Series:HarperVoyager
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘‘Ray Bradbury’s gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world’ Barack Obama

‘Fahrenheit 451 is the most skilfully drawn of all science fiction’s conformist hells’Kingsley Amis

‘Bradbury’s is a very great and unusual talent’Christopher Isherwood

‘Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe’ Guardian

About The Author

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury has published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are ‘Fahrenheit 451’, ‘The Illustrated Man’ and ‘The Martian Chronicles’.

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