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
Brossura, 195 pagine
lingua Italian
Pubblicato il 04 Agosto 1989 da Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A..
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-32025-8ISBN copiato!
Fahrenheit 451
Copertina rigida
lingua Spanish
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 1997 da Minotauro.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-450-7119-9ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 431918104
Fahrenheit 451
184, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 12 Novembre 1979 da Ballantine Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-345-32032-2ISBN copiato!
Fahrenheit 451
Copertina rigida
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Ottobre 1967 da Simon and Schuster.
- Numero OCLC:
- 852658094
Fahrenheit 451
Copertina rigida, 152 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 1982 da Limited Editions Club.
- Numero OCLC:
- 65969967
Fahrenheit 451
Brossura, 176 pagine
lingua Spanish
Pubblicato il 12 Marzo 2004 da Debols!llo.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9793-005-5ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 1007585351
451 ̊po Farengeitu/451 по Фаренгеиту
Brossura, 150 pagine
lingua Russian
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 1956 da Izd-vo Inostrannoĭ Lit-ry/Изд-во Иностранной Лит-ры.
- Numero OCLC:
- 7257486
Fahrenheit 451
audio cd
lingua English
Pubblicato il 01 Ottobre 2001 da Caedmon.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-694-52627-7ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 938336164
Fahrenheit 451
lingua Turkish
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 2007 da İthaki.
- ISBN:
- 978-975-6902-21-9ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 613945171
Fahrenheit 451
Brossura
Pubblicato il 24 Marzo 2018 da Saída de Emergência.
- ISBN:
- 978-989-773-106-8ISBN copiato!
Fahrenheit 451
Copertina rigida, 190 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 14 Febbraio 1993 da Simon & Schuster.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-671-87229-8ISBN copiato!
Fahrenheit 451
Brossura, 159 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 12 Novembre 1986 da Macmillan of Canada.
Fahrenheit 451
Copertina rigida
lingua English
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 1954 da Rupert Hart-Davis.
- Numero OCLC:
- 637219409
Fahrenheit 451
lingua Spanish
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 2006 da Debolsillo.
- ISBN:
- 978-958-8611-95-2ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 931943862
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