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Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
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Contemporánea) volume 182
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Español
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Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel arde. Guy Montag es un bombero, y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que están prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mecánico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyección hipodérmica y escoltado por helicópteros, está preparado para rastrear a los disidentes que aún conservan y leen libros. La visión de Bradbury es asombrosamente profética:...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
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Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature.
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Publisher
Nhã nam
Edition
Vietnamese edition.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
"Hãy mường tượng một thế giớ nơi truyền hình thống trị và văn chương ngấp nghé trên bờ tuyệt chủng, nơi thông tin nông cạn được tung hô còn tri thức và ý tưởng thì bị ruồng rẫy, nơi tàng trữ sách là phạm pháp, ta có thể bị bắt chỉ vì tản bộ trên vỉa hè, còn nhiệm vụ của những người lính không phải cứu hỏa mà là châm mồi cho những đám...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In a not too distant future, humans live a seemingly care-free existence where they're happy and productive. There is a "price" though for this life: They must place special drops in their eyes daily and follow the rules perfectly, including the rule that they never own or read books. Guy Montag is a firefighter. He doesn't fight fires though, but instead hunts down those people who refuse to follow the law and burns their books. Like everyone else,...
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