Description: Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think...and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!, For use in schools and libraries only. A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit., Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames... never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think... and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!
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LCCN: 96-096738
Signed: No
Book Series: n.a.
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Edition: Book Club Edition, Collector's Edition, First Edition, International Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Type: Novel
Unit Type: Unit
Era: 1990s
Personalized: No
Features: Ex-Library
Unit Quantity: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
LC Classification Number: PS3503.R167F3 1996
Book Title: Fahrenheit 451
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Item Length: 8.3 in
Publication Year: 1996
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.5 in
Author: Ray Bradbury
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Dystopian, Science Fiction / Space Opera, Political, Science Fiction / General
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Item Width: 5.6 in
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
