Bibliograph

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman

Type

Label

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Fahrenheit 451

Oclc number

847522046

Responsibility statement

Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman

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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.2, 7.0, 736

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright --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

Target audience

adolescent

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Fahrenheit four hundred fifty-oneFahrenheit four fifty-one

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