"Fahrenheit 451 -- the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns ..."
"Now an HBO film starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon"--Cover
Includes section titled 'History, context, and criticism' (pages 159-249), edited by Jonathan R. Eller
Includes bibliographical references
Part one: the story of fahrenheit 451 The story of fahrenheit 451 / Jonathan R. Eller -- From the day after tomorrow: why science fiction" / Ray Bradbury -- Listening library audio introduction / Ray Bradbury -- Investing dimes: fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury -- Part two: other vocies. From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / Nelson Algren -- Books of the times / Orville Prescott -- From new wine, old bottles / Gilbert Highet -- New novels / Idris Parry -- New fiction / Sir John Betjeman -- 1984 and all that / Adrian Mitchell -- From new maps of hell / Sir Kingsley Amis -- Introduction to Ray Bradbury's fahrenheit 451 / Harold Bloom -- Fahrenheit 451 / Margaret Atwood -- Shades of Orwell / Arthur Knight -- From the journal of fahrenheit 451 / François Truffaut
"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."-- Provided by publisher
