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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one (other title)
Fahrenheit four fifty-one (other title)

Bradbury, Ray 1920-2012 (author.). Gaiman, Neil (writer of introduction.). Eller, Jonathan R. 1952- (editor.).

Summary: 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 ... This 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; and much more ...--

Record details

ISBN: 1613832494
ISBN: 9781613832493
ISBN: 1451673310
ISBN: 9781451673319
ISBN: 1451673264
ISBN: 9781451673265
Physical Description: xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Edition: 60th anniversary edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ..."--Title page. "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 ..."--Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.