Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
ISBN: 9780006546061
出版社: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
出版年: 1993-07-31
页数: 192
定价: USD 16.50
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Fahrenheit 451: the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, beingthe 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.
"Ray Bradbury has powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allan Poe." GUARDIAN
作者简介
Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.
"As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else" DAILY TELEGRAPH
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer prize special citation.
目录
Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition
Part One: The Hearth and the Salamander
Part Two: The Sieve and the Sand
Part Three: Burning Bright
Burning Bright: An Afterword by Ray Bradbury