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Bradbury, Ray.
Fahrenheit 451 /
Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.
60th anniversary ed. ; First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2013.
©1951.
xvi, 249 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm.
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Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, c1953.
"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns ..."--Title page.
"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 ..."--Jacket.
In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
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State-sponsored terrorism
Fiction.
Totalitarianism
Fiction.
Book burning
Fiction.
Censorship
Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Political fiction.
Satirical literature.
Science fiction.