Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 : Folio Society in Slipcase : Illustrated : 2011

Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury

Introduced by Michael Moorcock

Illustrated by Sam Weber

Published by Folio Society. London, 2011. First Thus. Hardback book in slipcase. 152 pages. Illustrated.

CONDITION
A very good copy. Slipcase good. The book itself is very clean throughout. Small inscription to front red endpaper in pen. Overall very good.

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The novel follows in the viewpoint of Guy Montag, a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.

Fahrenheit 451 was written by Bradbury during the Second Red Scare and the McCarthy era, inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany and by ideological repression in the Soviet Union. Bradbury's claimed motivation for writing the novel has changed multiple times. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote the book because of his concerns about the threat of burning books in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature. In a 1994 interview, Bradbury cited political correctness as an allegory for the censorship in the book, calling it "the real enemy these days" and labeling it as "thought control and freedom of speech control".

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