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100 | 1 | _aBradbury, Ray | |
245 | 1 | 0 | _aFahrenheit 451 |
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_aLondon _bHarper Voyager _c2013 |
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520 | _aTo celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this hauntingly prophetic classic novel, a special edition with a new introduction by Ray Bradbury. 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 creat a novel which, fifty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock. | ||
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_aState-sponsored terrorism _vFiction. _935676 |
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_aBook burning _vFiction. |
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_98940 _aTotalitarianism _vFiction. |
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