Fahrenheit 451
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781451690316
Category
Science Fiction/Fantaisie
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Pages
158
Subject
English Adult Fiction (Lexile Measure 890L)
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Abstract
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. 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 then 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.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
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 then 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.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
Description
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Number of Copies
4
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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CRL Institut Le Bel | 99527 | LIV ANG SFF | 1 | Yes | ||
CRL Sciences de la Vie | 99529 | LIV ANG SFF | 2 | Yes | ||
CRL Institut Le Bel | 99683 | LIV ANG SFF | 3 | Yes | ||
CRL Institut Le Bel | 99709 | LIV ANG SFF | 4 | No |