A Pleasure To Burn

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062071033

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A Pleasure to Burn by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature—a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of Bradbury’s darkly magnificent tale are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master’s landmark novel. Classic, thematically interrelated stories alongside many crucial lesser-known ones—including, at the collection’s heart, the novellas “Long After Midnight” and “The Fireman”—A Pleasure to Burn is an indispensable companion to the most powerful work of America’s preeminent storyteller, a wondrous confirmation of the inimitable Bradbury’s brilliance, magic . . . and fire.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062071026

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A Pleasure to Burn by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature—a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of Bradbury’s darkly magnificent tale are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master’s landmark novel. Classic, thematically interrelated stories alongside many crucial lesser-known ones—including, at the collection’s heart, the novellas “Long After Midnight” and “The Fireman”—A Pleasure to Burn is an indispensable companion to the most powerful work of America’s preeminent storyteller, a wondrous confirmation of the inimitable Bradbury’s brilliance, magic . . . and fire.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743247221

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Book burning
ISBN : 067187229X

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

A fireman in charge of burning books meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Depicts a future world in which all printed reading material is burned.

Author : Jenny Han,Siobhan Vivian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442440760

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Burn for Burn by Jenny Han,Siobhan Vivian Pdf

Three teenaged girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them.

Author : Zhi Li
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231541534

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A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden) by Zhi Li Pdf

Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Translated for the first time into English, Li Zhi's bold challenge to established doctrines will captivate anyone curious about the origins of such subtly transgressive works as the sixteenth-century play The Peony Pavilion or the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. In A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden), Li Zhi confronts accepted ideas about gender, questions the true identity of history's heroes and villains, and offers his own readings of Confucius, Laozi, and the Buddha. Fond of vivid sentiment and sharp expression, Li Zhi made no distinction between high and low literary genres in his literary analysis. He refused to support sanctioned ideas about morality and wrote stinging social critiques. Li Zhi praised scholars who risked everything to expose extortion and misrule. In this sophisticated translation, English-speaking readers encounter the best of this heterodox intellectual's vital contribution to Chinese thought and culture.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781466899148

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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

A Graphic Adaptation An HBO Original Movie starring Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther), Sofia Boutella (Star Trek: Beyond), and Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water). An Eisner Award Nominee "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes." For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden. In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world's most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. 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. Including an original foreword by Ray Bradbury and fully depicting the brilliance and force of his canonic and beloved masterwork, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is an exceptional, haunting work of graphic literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Horror comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1561631132

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The Ray Bradbury Chronicles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephanie Oakes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101633724

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The Arsonist by Stephanie Oakes Pdf

Code Name Verity meets I Am the Messenger in this riveting YA novel from Morris Award finalist Stephanie Oakes, in which three points of view are woven together in a story that's part Cold War mystery, part contemporary coming-of-age, and completely unputdownable. Molly Mavity is not a normal teenage girl. For one thing, her father is a convicted murderer, and his execution date is fast approaching. For another, Molly refuses to believe that her mother is dead, and she waits for the day when they’ll be reunited . . . despite all evidence that this will never happen. Pepper Al-Yusef is not your average teenage boy. A Kuwaiti immigrant with epilepsy, serious girl problems, and the most useless seizure dog in existence, he has to write a series of essays over the summer . . . or fail out of school. And Ava Dreyman—the brave and beautiful East German resistance fighter whose murder at seventeen led to the destruction of the Berlin Wall—is unlike anyone you’ve met before. When Molly gets a package leading her to Pepper, they’re tasked with solving a decades-old mystery: find out who killed Ava, back in 1989. Using Ava’s diary for clues, Molly and Pepper realize there’s more to her life—and death—than meets the eye. Someone is lying to them. And someone out there is guiding them along, desperate for answers. At turns heart-racing, hilarious, and heartbreaking, The Arsonist is an intricate tapestry—of love, loss, and the mysterious connections between us all.

Author : Artie Lange,Anthony Bozza
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476765594

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Crash and Burn by Artie Lange,Anthony Bozza Pdf

In this follow-up to his memoir Too fat to fish, the comedian and radio personality focuses on his drug addiction and life-threatening depression with an unflinching eye and his signature wit. A veteran comedian and radio personality, Lange was addicted to heroin and prescription drugs. He details his very public meltdown, and explains how he turned his life and career around.

Author : Lorelei James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101598702

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Turn and Burn by Lorelei James Pdf

Tanna Barker is a world champion barrel racer. But her personal life has been less of a success, and she’s feeling adrift. After her mother’s unexpected death, her father has remarried, and sold the Texas ranch she called home. Now a rodeo injury has left the restless spitfire holed up in Muddy Gap, unsure what her next move should be. Until she meets her match in a wild, wild cowboy Veterinarian August Fletcher has always put his job first. He’s never found a woman who could handle his on-the-road lifestyle. But when sassy, sexy Tanna blows into town, he finally finds the woman of his fantasies. And there’s something between them, but she claims she’s been burned by love ’em and leave ’em road dogs before. How can Fletch prove that he’s in it for the long haul, and that their sizzling relationship is better than winning any rodeo medal? It’ll take some sweet persuasion to convince Tanna that Muddy Gap is where she belongs.

Author : A. C. Weisbecker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101127551

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Cosmic Banditos by A. C. Weisbecker Pdf

Soon to be a major motion picture starring John Cusack! Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose. Only months before, these three and their fearless associates were rolling in millions in cash and high-grade marijuana, eluding prosecution on “ridiculously false” drug and terrorism charges. But times have quickly grown lean, and to liven up their exile, Jose decides to mug a family of American tourists. Among the spoils are physics texts, which launch Mr. Quark on a side-splitting, boisterous adventure north to California, where he confronts the owner of the books with his own theories on relativity, the nature of the universe, and looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places….

Author : Miles Cameron
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473232624

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Artifact Space by Miles Cameron Pdf

Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships. With their vast cargo holds and a crew that could fill a city, the Greatships are the lifeblood of human occupied space, transporting an unimaginable volume - and value - of goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an unknowable alien species. It has always been Marca Nbaro's dream to achieve the near-impossible: escape her upbringing and venture into space. All it took, to make her way onto the crew of the Greatship Athens was thousands of hours in simulators, dedication, and pawning or selling every scrap of her old life in order to forge a new one. But though she's made her way onboard with faked papers, leaving her old life - and scandals - behind isn't so easy. She may have just combined all the dangers of her former life, with all the perils of the new . . .

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451673319

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners, Guy Montag, suddenly realizes their merit.

Author : Herbert R. Kohl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1565842588

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Should We Burn Babar? by Herbert R. Kohl Pdf

Discusses the meaning conveyed to children from books like "Babar, the Elephant," and "Pinocchio," and takes a look at the history of public education