Ray Bradbury
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Language
English
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The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. In this frightening vision of a totalitarian future, a fireman's job is to burn books. Fireman Guy Montag loves his job - until he learns of the ideas that books contain and just what it might mean to think for himself. A classic from one of the greats.
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Language
English
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12-year-old Douglas Spaulding lives a magical childhood in his Illinois hometown during the summer of 1928. This 1957 semi-autobiographical novel by Ray Bradbury, takes place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois -- a pseudonym for Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature-a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of Bradbury's darkly magnificent tale are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master's landmark novel. Classic, thematically interrelated stories...