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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35972278 Title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 1996. ©1953 ISBN/ISSN: 0345410017 9780345410016 1451673310 9781451673319 OCLC:35972278

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Fahrenheit 451

Author:	Ray Bradbury
Publisher:	New York : Ballantine Books, 1996. ©1953
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : English : 1st trade edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do ...
Rating:	based on 2 rating(s) 1 with a review
Subjects	State-sponsored terrorism -- Fiction. Totalitarianism -- Fiction. Book burning -- Fiction. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Satire Fiction Political fiction Classical literature Science fiction
Material Type:	Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Ray Bradbury Find more information about:
ISBN:	0345410017 9780345410016 1451673310 9781451673319
OCLC Number:	35972278
Notes:	"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ..." "A Del Rey book."
Awards:	Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 2000
Target Audience:	Young Adult.; 890
Description:	179 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:	The hearth and the salamander -- The sieve and the sand -- Burning bright -- Afterword -- Coda.
Responsibility:	Ray Bradbury.
More information:	Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description

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Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do ...

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Fired up about a burning issue for our times

by ppeeling (WorldCat user published 2007-10-02) Very Good

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In 1953, Ray Bradbury created a dystopic vision of a future whose time would be about now. There, a pervasive media provides constant stimulation and creates the need for constant gratification. It provides ample distraction for the government to conduct unquestioned wars, to manipulate thought, and...
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