Fahrenheit 451 (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: An indeterminate time in the future
- Setting: Implicitly an anonymous location in the United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: Values, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Literature, Social issues, Education or educators, Future, Books, Oppression, War, Reading, Science fiction, Conformity, Fire, Censorship, Totalitarianism, Technology
- Locales: North America
The Plot
It is ironic that in 1953, an asbestos edition of the novel, which describes a terrifying, censorship-obsessed society that burns books, was published. Ironic too is that in the 1980’s, Ray Bradbury found that the publisher had, through the years, silently censored from his original text seventy-five sections of Fahrenheit 451. Stories published in the 1953 edition are omitted from most later editions.
Fahrenheit 451, which takes its title from the temperature at which paper burns, takes place in a sterile, futuristic society in which firemen...
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