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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury
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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.
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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  • Release date: November 29, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781439142677
  • Release date: November 29, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781439142677
  • File size: 10419 KB
  • Release date: November 29, 2011
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature Science Fiction

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ATOS Level:5.2
Lexile® Measure:890
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:4-5

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.
Expand title description text
Classic Literature Fiction Literature Science Fiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Simon & Schuster

    Awards:

    Kindle Book
    Release date: November 29, 2011

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781439142677
    Release date: November 29, 2011

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781439142677
    File size: 10419 KB
    Release date: November 29, 2011

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 5.2
    Lexile® Measure: 890
    Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    Text Difficulty: 4-5
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