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...

Werner stars as a fireman in charge of burning books in a future where reading is a crime. Christie plays a dual role as his wife and his book-collecting mistress.

In a terrifying carefree future, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman, and begins to rebel against society.

451 degrés Fahrenheit représentent la température à laquelle un livre s'enflamme et se consume. Dans cette société future où la lecture, source de questionnement et de réflexion, est considérée comme un acte antisocial, un corps spécial de pompiers est chargé de brûler tous les livres dont la détention est interdite pour le bien collectif. Montag, le premier pyromane, se met pourtant à rêver d'un monde différent, qui ne bannirait

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Contains stories and novellas which were the precursors to, and show the evolution of, the full-length classic novel Fahrenheit 451.

Summary of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a classic science fiction novel named for the temperature at which paper combusts. The story is set in a futuristic United States, run by an authoritarian government, where nearly everyone's attention is preoccupied by mindless television and radio programs...

Ray Bradbury, A Giant Of American Literature Who Helped Popularize Science Fiction With Works Such As "The Martian Chronicles," Died On Tuesday (June 5) At Age 91, His Publisher Said On Wednesday (June 6). Bradbury Published More Than 500 Works Including "Fahrenheit 451," A Classic Novel About Book Censorship In A Future Society, And Other Favorites Such As "The Illustrated Man" And "Something Wicked This Way Comes." "Mr. Bradbury Died Peacefully,...

A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. In books that look forward to astonishing futures and backward to evanescent realms of memory, he elevated speculative fiction from the pages of the pulps to the vital center of American literary culture. This definitive Library of America edition gathers his novels and story cycles of the 1950s and 1960s for...

If you love to read, and presumably you do since you've picked up this book, you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on the other hand, disappoint you so much you want to throw them against the wall. Either way, it's clear that a book can be your new soul mate or the bad relationship you need to end. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, librarian Annie Spence has crafted love letters...