Dear Fahrenheit 451

Author : Annie Spence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785784471

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Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence Pdf

Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the 'must-read' book that you wish you hadn't? Librarian Annie Spence has done just that, writing letters to the books under her care, from love letters to Matildaand The Goldfinch, to snarky break-up notes to Fifty Shades of Greyand The Hobbit. Annie's letters will make you laugh, remind you why you love your favourite books, and give you lots of new entries for your reading list. She's also on-hand to help out with your bookish dilemmas: recommendations for lazy readers; excuses to tell your friends when you'd rather stay home reading; and how to turn your lover into a reader. Hilarious, compassionate and smart, Dear Fahrenheit 451is the consummate book-lover's book.

Author : Annie Spence
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781250113887

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Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence Pdf

A librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life. If you love to read, and presumably you do since you’ve picked up this book (!), you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think about the world. Some books, on the other hand, disappoint you so much you want to throw them against the wall. Either way, it’s clear that a book can be your new soul mate or the bad relationship you need to end. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, librarian Annie Spence has crafted love letters and breakup notes to the iconic and eclectic books she has encountered over the years. From breaking up with The Giving Tree (a dysfunctional relationship book if ever there was one), to her love letter to The Time Traveler’s Wife (a novel less about time travel and more about the life of a marriage, with all of its ups and downs), Spence will make you think of old favorites in a new way. Filled with suggested reading lists, Spence’s take on classic and contemporary books is very much like the best of literature—sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes surprisingly poignant, and filled with universal truths. A celebration of reading, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is for anyone who loves nothing more than curling up with a good book...and another, and another, and another!

Author : Annie Spence
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1432848399

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Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence Pdf

In Dear Fahrenheit 451 , librarian Annie Spence has crafted love letters and breakup notes to the iconic and eclectic books she has encountered over the years. From breaking up with The Giving Tree (a dysfunctional relationship book if ever there was one), to her love letter to The Time Traveler's Wife (a novel less about time travel and more about the life of a marriage, with all of its ups and downs), Spence will make you think of old favorites in a new way.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439142677

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

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 and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Book burning
ISBN : 0345410017

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

In a future time when government policy decrees that all books must be burned, a few courageous individuals memorize as many books as possible.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8804320257

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0003300277

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

A not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, where individuals and scholars are outcasts and where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Montag, trained by the state to be a destroyer, throws away his can of kerosene and begins to read a book.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438114491

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Fahrenheit 451 by Harold Bloom Pdf

Ray Bradbury's story of fireman Guy Montag, professional book burner, tackles the incendiary issue of censorship.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979899096

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. 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 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 over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316361163

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Dear Santa by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Ray Bradbury's strange, magical, and unsettling story of a grown boy bent on understanding the man behind the beard, red coat, and hat at his local department store. An adolescent boy stands patiently in the back of the long line of children waiting to sit on the lap of their local Santa Claus. Why is he there? What does he intend? What mysterious hopes does he hold for this holiday season? The answer arrives following a cryptic interaction between the two, when the reality of the boy's awareness and the goals of the man in the red suit become clear. "Dear Santa" by Ray Bradbury is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books's Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and listen to them all!

Author : Samuel J. Umland
Publisher : Cliffs Notes
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-02-22
Category : Cliffs Notes
ISBN : 0822004585

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Fahrenheit 451 by Samuel J. Umland Pdf

Summaries and critical commentaries about Fahrenheit 451.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982105150

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The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury Pdf

From “one of science fiction’s grand masters” (Library Journal), a new reissue of Ray Bradbury’s The Toynbee Convector: a collection of twenty-two stories, including the continuing saga of H.G. Well’s time traveler and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy. The world’s only time traveler finally reveals his secret. An old man’s memory of World War I conjures ghostly parachutists. An Egyptian mummy turns up in an Illinois cornfield. A lonely Martian prepares to face his doom. From the iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, The Toynbee Convector is a true cause for celebration. The twenty-two classic tales in this special Ray Bradbury collection begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives, in common thoughts and memories, and then take off into the farthest reaches of the imagination. “The fiction creates the truth in this lovely exercise in utopian dreaming” (Publishers Weekly)—stunning stories that could only come from the brilliant mind of Ray Bradbury.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780006546061

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

A science fiction book that narrates the story of a futuristic society where all books are banished and firefighters are assigned the job of burning the books and the house or building that contains the books rather than putting out fires.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Book burning in literature
ISBN : 9781438113845

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Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury, New Edition by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays about Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.