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Fahrenheit 451 Paperback - 2010

by Ray D. Bradbury

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Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine Books, 1953) by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel that presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. Written in the early years of the Cold War, the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as issues in American society of the era.

Bradbury combined two of his early short stories, "The Pedestrian" and  "Bright Phoenix," into The Fireman, a novella published in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Bradbury's publisher at Ballantine Books then suggested that he expand the work to make into a novel—Fahrenheit 451.

Reader reviews for Fahrenheit 451

From the publisher

La historia de un sombro y aterrador futuro

Guy Montag pertenece a una extraa brigada de bomberos. Su misin, paradjicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante ms de 10 aos, y siempre le gust su trabaj. Nunca cuestion nada --ni la emocin de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder-- hasta que conoci a una nia de diecisiete aos que le mostr un pasado en el que la gente no tena miedo y a un profesor que le habl de un futuro en el que la gente podra ser libre. Y al fin Montag comprendi lo que tena que hacer.

Fahrenheit 451, la novela ms clebre del maestro de la ciencia ficcin, nos presenta un futuro perturbador: un mundo en el que los libros y la lectura estn prohibidos. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en ese mundo est prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en ese mundo hay que ser feliz a la fuerza.

First edition identification

Fahrenheit 451 was first published as a novel by Ballantine Books in New York in 1953. First edition copies signed by Bradbury sell for $15,000-$18,000. A limited-edition was released by the publisher in late 1953 of 200 signed copies that were bound in asbestos (to make them fireproof). 

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  • Title Fahrenheit 451
  • Author Ray D. Bradbury
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition TRA
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language SPA
  • Publisher Vintage Espanol, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2010-01-05
  • ISBN 9780307475312 / 030747531X
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.32 x 0.53 in (20.32 x 13.51 x 1.35 cm)
  • Reading level 890
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Aterrador en sus implicaciones… el relato de Bradbury de ese mundo enfermizo, que guarda muchas y alarmantes similitudes con el nuestro, es fascinante”. —The New York Times

About the author

Ray Bradbury naci el 22 de agosto de 1920 en Waukegan, Illinois. Durante la Gran Depresin se traslad con su familia a Los ngeles, donde se gradu en 1938 del Los Angeles High School. Su educacin acadmica acab ah, pero continu formndose por cuenta propia hasta que en 1943 se convirtri en escritor profesional. Sus obras ms conocidas son Crnicas marcianas, El hombre ilustrado y Fahrenheit 451. Brabdury no slo es novelista, tambin ha escrito innumerables guiones de televisin, ensayos y poemas. Su preocupacin como escritor no slo se centra en cuestionar el modo de vida actual, tambin se adentra en el reino de lo fantstico y maravilloso, con un estilo potico y, a veces, provocativo. En su niez, Bradbury fue muy propenso a las pesadillas y horribles fantasas que acab por plasmar en sus relatos muchos aos despus.

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