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Fahrenheit 451 Reissue Edition
Contributor(s): Bradbury, Ray (Author)
ISBN: 1451673310     ISBN-13: 9781451673319
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
OUR PRICE:   $15.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Science Fiction - General
- Fiction | Media Tie-in
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2018296418
Lexile Measure: 890
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.5" W x 8.25" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 736
Reading Level: 5.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.


Contributor Bio(s): Bradbury, Ray D.: - Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's Moby Dick and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.Bradbury, Ray: - Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's Moby Dick and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.