The release date for the English version of 'Fahrenheit 451' by
Ray Bradbury is Mar 2013. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The horrifyingly prescient book about a postliterate society.
Guy Montag is an arsonist. It is his responsibility to destroy books, which are illegal and the cause of all strife and misery. Montag's marriage is strained, yet he is nonetheless miserable. Is his home filled with secret books? Equipped with a deadly hypodermic needle and accompanied by helicopters, the Fire Department's Mechanical Hound is prepared to pursue any dissidents who refuse to follow social norms in favour of reading and preserving literature.
Fahrenheit 451 is a popular dystopian book about a postliterate future that is read alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. It is a prophecy about the media, drugs, and conformity enslaving Western culture.
Decades after it was originally published, Bradbury's work still has the ability to astonish and captivate readers with its forceful and beautiful writing and astute understanding of the possibilities of technology.
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