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Bradbury, Ray,
1920-2012.
Fahrenheit 451 /
Ray Bradbury.
Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-one.
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2012.
xi, 159 p. ;
23 cm.
"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns--".
Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, c1953.
In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
20180626.
State-sponsored terrorism
Fiction.
Totalitarianism
Fiction.
Book burning
Fiction.
Books and reading
Fiction.
Censorship
Fiction.
Political fiction.
Science fiction.