Fahrenheit 451 /
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012,
Fahrenheit 451 / Fahrenheit four fifty-one Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman. - 60th anniversary edition. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ..." "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 ..."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451 -- "The story of 'Fahrenheit 451'" / by Jonathan R. Eller -- from "The day after tomorrow: why science fiction?" / Ray Bradbury (1953) -- Listening library audio introduction / by Ray Bradbury (1976) -- "Investing dimes: 'Fahrenheit 451'" / by Ray Bradbury (1982, 1989) -- "Coda" / by Ray Bradbury (1979) -- From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / by Nelson Algren -- "Books of the times" / by Orville Prescott -- from "New wine, old bottles" / by Gilbert Highet -- "New novels" / by Idris Parry -- "New fiction" / by Sir John Betjeman -- "1984 and all that" / by Adrian Mitchell -- from 'New maps of Hell' / by Sir Kingsley Amis -- Introduction to 'Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451' / by Harold Bloom -- "Fahrenheit 451" / by Margaret Atwood -- "Shades of Orwell" / by Arthur Knight -- from "The journal of 'Fahrenheit 451'" / by François Truffaut.
In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
9781451673265 1451673264
State-sponsored terrorism--Fiction.
Totalitarianism--Fiction.
Book burning--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
Books and reading--Fiction.
Terrorisme d'État--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Totalitarisme--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Autodafé de livres--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--Media Tie-In.
Book burning
Censorship
State-sponsored terrorism
Totalitarianism
Censorship.
Satire.
Science fiction.
novels.
Novels
Satire
Political fiction
Fiction
Science fiction.
Political fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
Romans.
PS3503.B798.F347 2013
Fahrenheit 451 / Fahrenheit four fifty-one Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman. - 60th anniversary edition. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ..." "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 ..."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451 -- "The story of 'Fahrenheit 451'" / by Jonathan R. Eller -- from "The day after tomorrow: why science fiction?" / Ray Bradbury (1953) -- Listening library audio introduction / by Ray Bradbury (1976) -- "Investing dimes: 'Fahrenheit 451'" / by Ray Bradbury (1982, 1989) -- "Coda" / by Ray Bradbury (1979) -- From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / by Nelson Algren -- "Books of the times" / by Orville Prescott -- from "New wine, old bottles" / by Gilbert Highet -- "New novels" / by Idris Parry -- "New fiction" / by Sir John Betjeman -- "1984 and all that" / by Adrian Mitchell -- from 'New maps of Hell' / by Sir Kingsley Amis -- Introduction to 'Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451' / by Harold Bloom -- "Fahrenheit 451" / by Margaret Atwood -- "Shades of Orwell" / by Arthur Knight -- from "The journal of 'Fahrenheit 451'" / by François Truffaut.
In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
9781451673265 1451673264
State-sponsored terrorism--Fiction.
Totalitarianism--Fiction.
Book burning--Fiction.
Censorship--Fiction.
Books and reading--Fiction.
Terrorisme d'État--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Totalitarisme--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Autodafé de livres--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--Media Tie-In.
Book burning
Censorship
State-sponsored terrorism
Totalitarianism
Censorship.
Satire.
Science fiction.
novels.
Novels
Satire
Political fiction
Fiction
Science fiction.
Political fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
Romans.
PS3503.B798.F347 2013