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
leather bound
lingua English
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 2000 da Easton Press.
- Numero OCLC:
- 861188331
Fahrenheit 451
Copertina rigida, 176 pagine
lingua German
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 2002 da Büchergilde Gutenberg.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-7632-5111-7ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 76335839
Fahrenheit 451
library binding, 190 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 12 Novembre 1993 da FollettBound.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-329-04649-1ISBN copiato!
Fahrenheit 451
mass market paperback
lingua English
Pubblicato il 12 Settembre 1979 da Del Rey.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-345-28482-2ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 472795678
Fahrenheit 451
Copertina rigida
lingua English
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 2001 da Book-of-the-Month Club.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-9650205-9-6ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 48174346
Fahrenheit 451
mass market paperback
lingua English
Pubblicato il 12 Agosto 1977 da Del Rey.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-345-27431-1ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 3987474
Ray Bradbury, Ralph Steadman, Marcial Souto: FAHRENHEIT 451 (Paperback, 2022, Libros del Zorro Rojo)
FAHRENHEIT 451
Brossura, 192 pagine
Pubblicato il 11 Maggio 2022 da Libros del Zorro Rojo.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-124707-8-9ISBN copiato!
451 po Farengeĭtu
253, pagine
lingua Russian
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 2005 da ĖKSMO, Domino.
- ISBN:
- 978-5-699-10819-0ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 62162967
Fahrenheit 451
Brossura
Pubblicato il 13 Agosto 2018 da Heyne Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-453-31983-7ISBN copiato!
華氏451度
236, pagine
lingua Chinese
Pubblicato il 31 Agosto 2006 da Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si.
- ISBN:
- 978-957-33-2229-0ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 69950396
Fahrenheit 451
audio cassette
lingua English
Pubblicato il 15 Novembre 2005 da Blackstone Audiobooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7861-4351-1ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 62502323
Farenheit 451
Brossura
lingua English
Pubblicato il 02 Aprile 2004 da Del Rey.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-450-7487-9ISBN copiato!
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