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008			130424 2013 xx eng
020			_a9780007491568
040			_aWMTP _cWMTP
100	1		_aBradbury, Ray
245	1	0	_aFahrenheit 451
260			_aLondon _bHarper Voyager _c2013
520			_aTo celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this hauntingly prophetic classic novel, a special edition with a new introduction by Ray Bradbury. 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 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 creat a novel which, fifty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
650			_aState-sponsored terrorism _vFiction. _935676
650			_aBook burning _vFiction.
655		0	_aScience fiction. _998
650			_98940 _aTotalitarianism _vFiction.
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