| Publisher: | Flamingo |
| Genres: | Classic Books & Novels, Classic Science Fiction |
| Authors: | Ray Bradbury |
| Pages: | 227 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN10: | 0006546064 |
| ISBN13: | 9780006546061 |
| Tags: | Classic Books & Novels, Classic Science Fiction Books, Free Books Download, epub Books Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | Book |
| Type: | Digital |
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.
