Author(s): Bradbury, Ray,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 16/08/1993,
Pagination: 192 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: HarperVoyager,
Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,
Book Classification: Science fiction
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 16mm
Weight: 214g
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780006546061

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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

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 over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.