Beskrivning
"Internationally acclaimed, with more than five million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published fifty years ago.
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do..."
(ISBN 10: 0-345-34296-8 / ISBN 13: I978-0-345-34296-6)
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do..."
(ISBN 10: 0-345-34296-8 / ISBN 13: I978-0-345-34296-6)
Bokdetaljer
Format
Pocketbok
Sidor
167 sidor
Språk
Engelska
Publicerad
apr 1, 2003
Förlag
Del Ray Books
Utgåva
50th Anniversary Edition, 48th Printing
Upplagor
2 utgåvor