by Ray Bradbury
In <I>Fahrenheit 451</I>, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or ...
Publisher
Lulu Press, Inc.
Published
2009-09-29
Pages
148
ISBN
9780557077649
Language
eng
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