Fahrenheit 451 Reissue edition

Marc Notes: Originally published in 1951.; Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns--.; 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--Cover p. [4].; 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. Review Quotes: "One of this country's most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic." --Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post"Review Quotes: "The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarates . . . His is a very great and unusual talent." --Christopher Isherwood, "Tomorrow"Review Quotes: "A masterpiece . . . A glorious American classic everyone should read: It's life-changing if you read it as a teen, and still stunning when you reread it as an adult." --Alice Hoffman, "The Boston Globe"Review Quotes: "Brilliant . . . Startling and ingenious . . . Mr. Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating." --Orville Prescott, "The New York Times"Review Quotes: "Frightening in its implications . . . Mr. Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating." --"The New York Times"Brief Description: In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. Brief Description: "A shorter version of Fahrenheit 451 appeared in Galazy Science Fiction under the title The fireman"--T.p. verso. Review Quotes: Brilliant . . . Startling and ingenious . . . Mr. Bradbury s account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating. Orville Prescott, "The New York Times""Review Quotes: A masterpiece . . . A glorious American classic everyone should read: It s life-changing if you read it as a teen, and still stunning when you reread it as an adult. Alice Hoffman, "The Boston Globe""Review Quotes: The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarates . . . His is a very great and unusual talent. Christopher Isherwood, "Tomorrow""Review Quotes: One of this country s most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic. Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post""Review Quotes: One of this countrys most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic. Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post"Publisher Marketing: Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. 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 then 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. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. Contributor Bio:  Bradbury, Ray Ray Bradbury (1920 2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.