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Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition, 60th anniversary edition. |
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xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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| Note |
"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ..." |
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"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"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Contents |
Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright. |
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History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller. pt. 1. The story of Fahrenheit 451. The story of Fahrenheit 451 / by Jonathan R. Eller ; From The day after tomorrow: why science fiction? (1953) / by Ray Bradbury ; Listening library audio introduction (1976) / by Ray Bradbury ; Investing dimes: Fahrenheit 451 (1982, 1989) / by Ray Bradbury ; Coda (1979) / by Ray Bradbury -- pt. 2. Other voices. The novel. 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 ; The motion picture. Shades of Orwell / by Arthur Knight ; From The journal of Fahrenheit 451 / by François Truffaut. |
| Summary |
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 ... This 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 ... --- From back cover. |
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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State-sponsored terrorism -- Fiction.
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Book burning -- Fiction.
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Censorship -- Fiction.
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Totalitarianism -- Fiction.
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Satire.
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. (OCoLC)fst01797620
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Book burning. (OCoLC)fst00836125
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Censorship. (OCoLC)fst00850568
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State-sponsored terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01131965
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Totalitarianism. (OCoLC)fst01153040
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Satire. (OCoLC)fst01105668
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Satire. (OCoLC)fst01726731
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Political fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726702
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Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Science fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Science fiction.
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| Added Author |
Gaiman, Neil, writer of introduction.
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Eller, Jonathan R., 1952- editor.
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| Added Title |
Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one |
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Fahrenheit four fifty-one |
| ISBN |
9781451673319 (paperback) |
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1451673310 (paperback) |
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9781439142677 (electronic book) |
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9781451673265 (hardcover) |
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1451673264 (hardcover) |
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9781613832493 (library binding) |
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1613832494 (library binding) |
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