Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
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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.
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.
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Street Date:
11/29/2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781439142677
ASIN:
B0064CPN7I
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.2, 7 Points
Level 5.2, 7 Points
Lexile measure:
890
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Ray Bradbury. (2011). Fahrenheit 451: A Novel. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ray Bradbury. 2011. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel. Simon & Schuster.
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