Fahrenheit 451
by BRADBURY, Ray
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- Hardcover
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Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel that presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era. Bradbury combined two of his early short stories, "The Pedestrian" and "Bright Phoenix," into The Fireman, a novella published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Bradbury's publisher at Ballantine Books then suggested that he expand the work to make into a novel—Fahrenheit 451.
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- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100561
- Title
- Fahrenheit 451
- Author
- BRADBURY, Ray
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- Rupert Hart-Davis. 1967
- Keywords
- SCIENCE FICTION and FANTASY Bradbury
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE FICTION and FANTASY;
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