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1 online resource (25 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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(epub) |
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| Summary |
"Get the Summary of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: 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."-- Provided by Freading. |
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Publisher metadata. |
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. Fahrenheit 451 -- Study guides.
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781638152590 (epub) |
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9781638152590 |
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