FAHRENHEIT 451 - 60th Anniversary Edition

Bradbury, Ray (introduction by Neil Gaiman)

ISBN 10: 1451673264 / ISBN 13: 9781451673265

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 2013

About this Item

(xvi) 251 pp. Quarter-bound in black on black boards; lettered in red on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 233186

Bibliographic Details

• Title: FAHRENHEIT 451 - 60th Anniversary Edition
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451673264
• ISBN 13: 9781451673265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Matt Owen
• Edition: First Thus, New Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

About the Author

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.