Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 - a masterwork of twentieth-century literature. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future. 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 dystopian 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 create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

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Ray Bradbury (22 August 1920 5 June 2012) published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Illustrated Man,' and 'The Martian Chronicles.'

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this hauntingly prophetic classic novel it has been given a revamp and a new and exclusive introduction by the late author. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel, which 50 years on from the first publication, still has the power to enthral and shock readers everywhere.