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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

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 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 over fifty years 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

• Full title: Fahrenheit 451
• Author: Ray Bradbury
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780006546061
• ISBN: 0006546064
• ID: 04001114
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 230 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. August 1993

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