The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. `Another indispensable classic' The Times `'Ray Bradbury's gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world' Barack Obama Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
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Ray Douglas Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (Waukegan, 22 de agosto de 1920) é um escritor de contos de ficção-científica norte-americano de ascendência sueca. Foi o terceiro filho de Leonard e Esther Bradbury, por causa do trabalho de seu pai (Técnico em instalação de linhas telefônicas), viajou por muitas cidades dos EUA, até que em 1934 sua família fixou residência em Los Angeles, Califórnia. Alguns pseudônimos usados por Ray Bradbury: Doug Rogers, Ron Reynolds, Guy Amory, Omega, Anthony Corvais, E. Cunningham, Brian Eldred, Cecil Cunningham, D. Lerium Tremaine, Edward Banks, D.R.Banet, Willian Elliot, Brett Sterling, Leonard Spaulding, Leonard Douglas, Douglas Spaulding.
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