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| Verlag | HarperCollins UK |
| Auflage | 16.08.1993 |
| Seiten | 240 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 230 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0006546064 |
| EAN | 9780006546061 |
| Bestell-Nr | 00654606EA |
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.
Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.
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.
