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Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2018Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Simon & Schuster trade paperback editionDescription: xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982102609
  • 1982102608
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3503.R167 F3 2018
Contents:
Part one: the story of fahrenheit 451 The story of fahrenheit 451 / Jonathan R. Eller -- From the day after tomorrow: why science fiction" / Ray Bradbury -- Listening library audio introduction / Ray Bradbury -- Investing dimes: fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- Part two: other vocies. From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / Nelson Algren -- Books of the times / Orville Prescott -- From new wine, old bottles / Gilbert Highet -- New novels / Idris Parry -- New fiction / Sir John Betjeman -- 1984 and all that / Adrian Mitchell -- From new maps of hell / Sir Kingsley Amis -- Introduction to Ray Bradbury's fahrenheit 451 / Harold Bloom -- Fahrenheit 451 / Margaret Atwood -- Shades of Orwell / Arthur Knight -- From the journal of fahrenheit 451 / François Truffaut.
Summary: A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.
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"Fahrenheit 451 -- the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns..."

"Now an HBO film starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon"--Cover.

Includes section titled 'History, context, and criticism' (pages 159-249), edited by Jonathan R. Eller.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part one: the story of fahrenheit 451 The story of fahrenheit 451 / Jonathan R. Eller -- From the day after tomorrow: why science fiction" / Ray Bradbury -- Listening library audio introduction / Ray Bradbury -- Investing dimes: fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- Part two: other vocies. From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / Nelson Algren -- Books of the times / Orville Prescott -- From new wine, old bottles / Gilbert Highet -- New novels / Idris Parry -- New fiction / Sir John Betjeman -- 1984 and all that / Adrian Mitchell -- From new maps of hell / Sir Kingsley Amis -- Introduction to Ray Bradbury's fahrenheit 451 / Harold Bloom -- Fahrenheit 451 / Margaret Atwood -- Shades of Orwell / Arthur Knight -- From the journal of fahrenheit 451 / François Truffaut.

A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.

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