{"product_id":"9780006546061","title":"Fahrenheit 451","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ray Bradbury\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eScience fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 16 August 1993 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperVoyager) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 x 16mm | 214g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ray Bradbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261180522821,"sku":"9780006546061","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780006546061.jpg?v=1763037747","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780006546061","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}