Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

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Produktbeschreibung

Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 080103
• Clothbound edition
• Seitenzahl: 227
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780007491568
• ISBN-10: 0007491565
• Artikelnr.: 36742879

Autorenporträt

Ray Bradbury (22 August 1920 ¿ 5 June 2012) published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Illustrated Man,' and 'The Martian Chronicles.'

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Rezensionen

"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