Fahrenheit 451 [electronic resource]
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-20122013
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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.The classic novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, forty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
Main title:
Fahrenheit 451 [electronic resource] / Bradbury, Ray.
Author:
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012, authorCloud
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Imprint:
[S.l.] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
Collation:
1 online resource240 p.
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] HarperCollins Publishers 2013 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 2.2 MB)
ISBN:
9780007496969
Language:
English
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BRN:
727461