Fahrenheit 451 (Deluxe Slipcase Edition)

Ray Bradbury's classic novel of resistance, Fahrenheit 451, is available for the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition featuring: Striking slipcase with foil Sprayed edges Ribbon marker Designed endpapersIn the dystopian America of Fahrenheit 451, knowledge is the enemy, and mass censorship reigns. 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. It is not until he meets his eccentric neighbor, Clarisse, that he begins to question everything he has ever known.Published over seventy years ago, Ray ...

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Verlag: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster US
Seitenzahl: 272
Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2025
Englisch
Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
Gewicht: 546g
ISBN-13: 9781668218181
ISBN-10: 1668218186
Artikelnr.: 73929724

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"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

'Another indispensible classic' The Times

'Fahrenheit 451 is the most skilfully drawn of all science fiction's conformist hells'
Kingsley Amis

'Bradbury's is a very great and unusual talent'
Christopher Isherwood

'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe' Guardian

'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' Spectator

'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else' Daily Telegraph

'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas - with dsicipline' Sunday Telegraph