Screen LibraryFahrenheit 451
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed., 60th anniversary ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 249 p.: ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781451673319 (pbk.) 1451673310 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/B798-5 |
| Contents: |
"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; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive"--Cover p. [4]. Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright -- 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. |