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Décryptez Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir de Fahrenheit 451, le roman incontournable de la science-fiction américaine? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.
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• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Guy Montag, Mildred Montag et le...
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Summary of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a classic science fiction novel named for the temperature at which paper combusts. The story is set in a futuristic United States, run by an authoritarian government, where nearly everyone's attention is preoccupied by mindless television and radio programs...
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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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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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A compilation of brief summaries of approximately thirteen contemporary novels, illustrated with infographics for easy consumption, and bearing Spark's TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) brand.
Chapters in this volume consist of six-page summaries of well-known contemporary novels illustrated with four-color infographics and organized in thematic groupings: "If This Goes On" (e.g., Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid's Tale); "Made in America" (e.g., The Great...
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From Ray Bradbury, the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal comes a magical collection of short fiction. Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of the 20th century. He is the author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories sure to delight readers young...
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"People think - wrongly - that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn't; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of it. Futures are huge things that come with many elements and a billion variables, and the human race has a habit ... What speculative fiction is good at is not the future but the present - taking an aspect of it that troubles or is dangerous and extrapolating that aspect into something that allows the people...
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"Silence is essential. Question nothing. Obey everything." Franklin Gamble finds himself bound by these strict principles as a member of the Sovereign State. However, haunting dreams of a forgotten family and a growing suspicion that his reality is a carefully constructed facade drive him to seek the truth. When the enigmatic Coalition reaches out to him, Franklin reluctantly embarks on a journey to uncover the elusive answers. In his quest for truth,...
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By the Author of the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. He did not want to be the father of a small blue pyramid. Peter Horn hadn't planned it that way at all. Neither he nor his wife imagined that such a thing could happen to them. They had talked quietly for days about the birth of their coming child, they had eaten normal foods, slept a great deal, taken in a few shows, and, when it was time for her to fly in the helicopter to the hospital,...
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"A nonfiction manuscript for young readers about a group of Allied spies and codebreakers that cracked the Nazis's infamous cypher, allowing them to read secret military messages and turn the tide of World War II. During WWII, as the Germans waged war, every Nazi plan, every attack, was sent over radio. But to the Allies listening in, the messages sounded like gibberish. The communications were encoded with a powerful cypher-unless you could unlock...
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The 29th Amendment guarantees everybody one monogamous romantic and sexual partner. As a detective with the Intimacy Allocation Unit, Sean hunts down the hoarders who violate this law.
Sean likes his job. It's the perfect cover.
But when Sean gets invited to an underground play party, his safe, simple life becomes...complicated. Every hour he spends with these outlaws, leading their life-the life he could have had-makes them seem less like targets,...
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From "a neglected master": All four murder mysteries featuring the psychoanalyst turned sleuth in 1950s San Francisco (Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451). Dr. Michael Gray is constantly drawn into the lives, and murders, of his clientele. Fortunately, this unconventional detective's eye for human behavior just might keep him out of mortal danger . . . The Murder of Eleanor Pope: When a woman is killed in a foggy San Francisco park, the police...
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A dystopian steampunk novel of a young man and woman desperate to escape-and destroy-the complex that has imprisoned them. From the author of The Nethers. In this world-building series, perfect for fans of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Hugh Howey's Wool, there are those who resist the grim future forced upon them . . . Myron enters the Jonesbridge Industrial Complex as a worker, a prisoner, commanded to harvest the scant resources that enable...
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Una distopía o antiutopía es una sociedad ficticia indeseable en sí misma. El término, procedente del griego, fue creado como antónimo directo de utopía, término que a su vez fue acuñado por santo Tomás Moro y figura como el título de su obra más conocida, publicada en 1516, donde describe un modelo para una sociedad ideal con niveles mínimos de crimen, violencia y pobreza. La vida en la Ciudad amurallada de Kowloon a menudo ha inspirado...
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