Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. 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 then 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.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.
ISBN-13: 9781451673319
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 01/10/2012
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile: 890L
BISAC Categories:
Banned Book - Fiction | Classics
Banned Book - Fiction | Science Fiction | General
Banned Book - Fiction | Media Tie-In
LC Subjects:
-Totalitarianism -Book burning
-Censorship -FICTION / Classics
-FICTION / Media Tie-In -FICTION / Science Fiction
-Fiction -Satirical literature
-State-sponsored terrorism -Political fiction
-Science fiction
Dewey: FIC
LC Call Number: PS3503.R167
LCCN: 2018296418
Lexile Level: 890