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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. 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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Science fiction Classic science fiction

• Full title: Fahrenheit 451
• Author: Ray Bradbury
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780007491568
• ISBN: 0007491565
• ID: 01242170
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 388 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 158 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. March 2013

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