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Fahrenheit 451  Cover Image Book Book

Fahrenheit 451

Summary: In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.

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  • ISBN: 9781451673319 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781451673265 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 249 p. ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed., 60th anniversary ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns--".
"The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive"--P. [4] of cover.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright.
Subject: Reading -- Fiction
Prohibited books -- Fiction
Book burning -- Fiction
Fires -- Fiction
Censorship -- Fiction
Conformity -- Fiction
Political persecution -- Fiction
Totalitarianism -- Fiction
Mass media -- Fiction
Futurism -- Fiction
Genre: Dystopian fiction.
Science fiction.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Chetwynd Public Library CLASSIC FIC BRA (Text) 35222000980036 Classic Volume hold Available -
Fort St. James Public Library BRA (Text) 35196000330519 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. John Public Library AF BRA (Text) 35211000527715 ADULT Fiction Volume hold Available -
Midway Public Library Fic BRA (Text) 35143000316239 Adult Paperback Volume hold Available -

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