Fahrenheit 451 (Flamingo Modern Classics) - A Novel
Verlag | HarperCollins UK |
Auflage | 1999 |
Seiten | 240 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,8 cm |
Gewicht | 117 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0006546064 |
EAN | 9780006546061 |
Bestell-Nr | 00654606EM |
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. 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.