Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Dystopian Classic Novel | Banned Books Collection | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literature Lovers

Author: Bradbury, Ray

Classic science fiction

Published on 28 March 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperVoyager) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 240 pages
223 x 158 x 24 | 390g

Voyager Classics – timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy.

A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 – a masterwork of twentieth-century literature.

Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.

The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.