Fahrenheit 451

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  • Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (1984)
  • Geffen Award for Best Translated SF Book (2002)
  • California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (1953)
  • Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel (2004)
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Fahrenheit 451

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ISBN: 9781451673319
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 2013-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Related Topics: Classics, Dystopia, Science Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.97
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Fahrenheit 451 - The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.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; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.
 

  • Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (1984)
  • Geffen Award for Best Translated SF Book (2002)
  • California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (1953)
  • Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.