Fahrenheit 451 -

Ray Bradbury

Simon & Schuster

2013

249 páginas

8h 18m

ISBN-10: 1451673310

Sixty years after its publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

"Fahrenheit 451- The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns."

Guy Montag is a fireman. 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 when 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, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

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; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.

Resenhas (289)

4 (Muito bom)

"Somos todos pedaços da história e da literatura".

Apesar de achar algumas partes confusas e mal organizadas, a adaptação é muito boa! Despertou em mim a vontade de (finalmente!) começar a ler o livro e conhecer mais profundamente esse universo tão maluco.

Não consigo imaginar minha vida sem livros. Então automaticamente, já me coloquei dentro da história, e fiquei imaginando qual seria a minha reação e as minhas ações em relação a tudo.

Vale muito a leitura!

"... Entende por que os livros são odiados e temidos? Eles revelam os poros no rosto da vida."