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Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012 (author.). Gaiman, Neil, (writer of introduction.).

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 ... 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 essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive; and much more.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781451673265
  • ISBN: 1451673264
  • ISBN: 9781451673319
  • ISBN: 1451673310
  • ISBN: 9781613832493
  • ISBN: 1613832494
  • Physical Description: xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: [First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition] 60th anniversary edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"The 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 essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ..."--Book jacket.
Paging and publisher may vary
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- One: the hearth and the salamander -- Two: the sieve and the sand -- Three: 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 Note:
890L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 7 736.
Subject:
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012 > Criticism and interpretation.
State-sponsored terrorism > Fiction.
Totalitarianism > Fiction.
Book burning > Fiction.
Censorship > Fiction.
Censorship.
Genre:
Satirical literature.
Political fiction.
Science fiction.
Novels.

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