Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book …
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Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns": the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.
The novel has been the subject of interpretations focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas for change. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature.
In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. It later won the Prometheus "Hall of Fame" Award in 1984 and a "Retro" Hugo Award, one of a limited number of Best Novel Retro Hugos ever given, in 2004. Bradbury was honored with a Spoken Word Grammy nomination for his 1976 audiobook version.
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Fahrenheit 451
Paperback, 175 pages
German language
Published Aug. 31, 1996 by Diogenes.
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- 978-3-257-20862-7Copied ISBN!
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- 831206954
Farenheit 451
audio cd
English language
Published Aug. 31, 1988 by Books on Tape.
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- 978-0-7366-7493-5Copied ISBN!
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- 748780429
Fahrenheit 451
Hardcover, 190 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 2007 by Simon & Schuster.
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- 978-1-60751-166-3Copied ISBN!
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- 730444688
Fahrenheit 451
Hardcover, 190 pages
English language
Published Feb. 14, 1993 by Simon & Schuster.
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- 978-0-671-87229-8Copied ISBN!
Fahrenheit 451
Paperback, 176 pages
Spanish language
Published March 12, 2004 by Debols!llo.
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- 978-84-9793-005-5Copied ISBN!
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- 1007585351
Fahrenheit 451
Hardcover, 192 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 31, 2002 by Random House Mondadori, S.A..
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- 8423793992833Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 920153854
Fahrenheit 451
Paperback, 159 pages
English language
Published March 31, 2013 by Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.
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- 978-1-4767-4452-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1020467961
Fahrenheit 451
Hardcover, 161 pages
English language
Published March 28, 1985 by Collins Educational.
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- 978-0-00-330027-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 472256135
Fahrenheit 451
library binding, 190 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 1993 by FollettBound.
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- 978-0-329-04649-1Copied ISBN!
Fahrenheit 451
mass market paperback
English language
Published Sept. 12, 1979 by Del Rey.
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- 978-0-345-28482-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 472795678
Fahrenheit 451
Hardcover, 176 pages
German language
Published Aug. 31, 2002 by Büchergilde Gutenberg.
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- 978-3-7632-5111-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76335839
Fahrenheit 451
Hardcover
English language
Published Aug. 31, 2001 by Book-of-the-Month Club.
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- 978-0-9650205-9-6Copied ISBN!
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- 48174346
Fahrenheit 451
mass market paperback
English language
Published Aug. 12, 1977 by Del Rey.
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- 978-0-345-27431-1Copied ISBN!
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- 3987474
Fahrenheit 451
Hardcover, 191 pages
English language
Published Oct. 6, 1967 by Simon and Schuster.
- OCLC Number:
- 7050586
Fahrenheit 451
Paperback, 277 pages
Published Oct. 19, 1953 by HarperVoyager.
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- 978-0-00-654606-1Copied ISBN!
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