Fahrenheit 451
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451673319 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xvi, 249 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
print - Edition: Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed., 60th anniversary ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns--". "The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive"--Cover p. [4]. |
Formatted Contents Note: | History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller. Pt. 1. The story of Fahrenheit 451. The story of Fahrenheit 451 / by Jonathan R. Eller ; From The day after tomorrow: why science fiction? (1953) / by Ray Bradbury ; Listening library audio introduction (1976) / by Ray Bradbury ; Investing dimes: Fahrenheit 451 (1982, 1989) / by Ray Bradbury ; Coda (1979) / by Ray Bradbury -- Pt. 2. Other voices. The novel. From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / by Nelson Algren ; Books of the times / by Orville Prescott ; From New wine, old bottles / by Gilbert Highet ; New novels / by Idris Parry ; New fiction / by Sir John Betjeman ; 1984 and all that / by Adrian Mitchell ; From New maps of hell / by Sir Kingsley Amis ; Fahrenheit 451 / by Margaret Atwood ; The motion picture. Shades of Orwell / by Arthur Knight ; From The journal of Fahrenheit 451 / by François Truffaut. |
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Subject: | Totalitarianism State-sponsored terrorism Censorship Book burning State-sponsored terrorism Fiction Totalitarianism Fiction Censorship Fiction Book burning Fiction |
Genre: | Fiction. |
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