| ID | 026901 |
| Call Number | 813.54/BRA |
| Title Proper | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bradbury, Ray |
| Edition Statement | 1991 |
| Publication | London, Harper Voyager, 2008. |
| Description | 227p Brown spine |
| Note | The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. 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 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. |
| Standard Number | 9780006546061 |
| Price. Qualification | £8.99(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 813.54 |
| Key Words | Book burning - Fiction ; Censorship - Fiction ; State-sponsored terrorism - Fiction ; Totalitarianism - Fiction ; IBDP ; Lexile 890L |