Book
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451673265
- ISBN: 1451673264
- ISBN: 9781451673319
- ISBN: 1451673310
- Physical Description: xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: 60th anniversary edition.
- Publisher: New York ; Simon & Schuster, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, ©1953. "First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition June 2013"--Title page verso. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright. 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, etc.: | 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. |
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| Genre: | Science fiction. Political fiction. Satirical literature. Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Putnam Public Library | BRADBURY (Text) | 33610148405308 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
