Title:
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury ; introduction by Neil Gaiman.
Author:
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.
Publication Information:
New York ; London ; Toronto ; Sydney ; New Delhi : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
©2013
Call Number:
PS3503.R167 F4 2013
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
60th anniversary edition
ISBN:
9781451673265
Physical Description:
xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, c1953.
"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ..."
"First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition June 2013"--Title page verso.
"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 ..."--Book jacket.
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