All Categories
    Filters
    Preferences
    Search

    Fahrenheit 451

    £8.99
    £9.99
    Price-Match is available in-store for recommended titles in CCCU module handbooks
    ISBN: 9780006546061
    Products specifications
    Attribute nameAttribute value
    AuthorBRADBURY RAY
    Pub Date16/08/1993
    BindingPaperback
    Pages192
    Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
    Ship to
    *
    *
    Shipping Method
    Name
    Estimated Delivery
    Price
    No shipping options
    Availability: Available for despatch from the bookshop in 48 hours
    The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

    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.