01874cam a2200397 i 4500 736464490 TxAuBib 20230328120000.0 130618t20131951||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781451673319 1451673310 (OCoLC)849346222 TxAuBib rda 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. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20230328. State-sponsored terrorism Fiction. Totalitarianism Fiction. Book burning Fiction. Censorship Fiction. Young adult fiction. Political fiction. Satirical literature. Science fiction.