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In a not to distant future Firemen set fire to books, instead of putting out fires. Montag is a Fireman who begins to wonder if burning books is the best thing for society and soon meets a woman who leads him to a secret society that works to save the books by memorizing them before they can be burned.
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La adaptación gráfica oficial de la novela clásica de Ray Bradbury.
Fahrenheit 451 cuenta la historia de un sombrío y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos cuya misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios, sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Porque en el país de Montag está terminantemente prohibido leer. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el país de Montag está prohibido...
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Fahrenheit 451 SparkNotes Literature Guide by Ray Bradbury
Making the reading experience fun!
When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night studying...
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Testez vos connaissances sur Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury!
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Fahrenheit 451 del estadounidense Ray Bradbury. Esta novela de ciencia-ficción es una distopía, y presenta un mundo futuro en el que la felicidad de la población es primordial y está centrada en las pantallas, omnipresentes en todos los hogares. El único peligro para esta sociedad son los libros, y el protagonista, un bombero, junto con otros compañeros, se encarga de quemarlos.
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Fahrenheit 451 with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a highly successful novel with a timeless message that is relevant to societies of the past, present and future. It tells the story of Montag, a fireman, whose job is to burn all books as they are prohibited in order to maintain peace and happiness. In the end,...
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Publié en 1953 alors que les États-Unis sont lancés dans une véritable chasse aux communistes et aux intellectuels initiée par McCarthy, Fahrenheit 451 rencontre un important succès dès la première semaine de parution. Pourtant, il ne fait aucun doute qu'à travers cette œuvre Ray Bradbury s'en prend directement au maccarthysme. Le Gouvernement américain ne s'y trompe pas et décèle dans l'œuvre des messages révolutionnaires. Mais qu'est-ce...
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Get the Summary of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. 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...
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Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature-a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of Bradbury's darkly magnificent tale are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master's landmark novel. Classic, thematically interrelated stories...
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A Study Guide for Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself.
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The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant...
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Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories — tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy.
Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible...
Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible...
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Masters of Despair analyzes one hundred years of dystopian fiction from: We, 1924; Brave New World, 1943; Darkness at Noon, 1932; Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949; Fahrenheit 451, 1953; The Man in the High Castle, 1962, The Handmaid's Tale, 1986. The Road, 2006 and others.
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The celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles offers inspiration and insight on finding one's muse and channeling it onto the page.
Acclaimed writer of novels and short stories as well as screen- and stage plays, Ray Bradbury has established himself as one of the most legendary voices in science fiction and fantasy. In Zen in the Art of Writing, he shares how his unbridled passion for creating worlds made him a master of the...
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Ray Bradbury's terrifying short story, one of the great stories of childhood-as-nightmare, appeared originally in Esquire in October 1953; it first appeared in book form in the Ballantine first issue of his famous novel, Fahrenheit 451. Charles Underhill, seeking to protect his young son from the agonies of schoolyard bullying in the playground makes a deal with the playground's mysterious manager but only at the end discovers the true nature of the...
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