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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

About 515 pages (154,514 words) in 60 products

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Fahrenheit 451 Quotes
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Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) by Ray Bradbury , a novel based on the short story " The Fireman " (originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction Vol. 1 No. 5 in February 1951), follows the exploits and self-examination of fireman Guy Montag in a dystopic...


Author Biography

Name: Ray Bradbury
Birth Date: August 22, 1920
Place of Birth: Waukegan, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, editor, poet, screenwriter, dramatist

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Biography of Ray (Douglas) Bradbury
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[This entry was updated by Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 16-33.] Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and althou...
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Biography of Ray Bradbury
10967 words, approx. 36.6 pages
Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and although his stories and themes have permeated all areas of American culture as have those of no other science-fiction writer—through more than five hundred st...
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Biography of Ray (Douglas) Bradbury
3248 words, approx. 10.8 pages
Ray Bradbury is an interesting writer who has unjustly suffered from critical neglect. In a sense he has been the victim of a genre. To consider his work as "science fiction" or "fantasy"--no matter how good--is to damn it, for invariably these modes are...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Books Burn Summary
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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Books Burn by Ray Bradbury When Ray Bradbury (1920-) graduated from high school, he was already committed to a writing career in science fiction. From the beginning his short stories and novels showed a personal...
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Fahrenheit 451 Information
3,892 words, approx. 13 pages
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's dystopian soft science fiction novel, was published in 1953. It first appeared as the novella, The Fireman, in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It is a critique of what Bradbury saw as an increasingly...


News and Journals
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The Village Voice
Fahrenheit 451
03/29/2006: 867 words, approx. 3 pages
FAHRENHEIT 451 By Ray Bradbury, based on his novel 59E59 Theaters 59 East 59th Street 212-753-5959 FUTURE BOOKINGS Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 gives a warning; GodlightTheatre's production doesn't heed it Ray Bradbury's 1953 fable, Fahrenheit 451, about a...
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The Washington Post
'Fahrenheit 451,' Tepid on the Stage
05/18/2006: 665 words, approx. 2 pages
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," which forecast a future when a totalitarian government has banned books and citizens are lulled into passivity, was hot when it was published in 1953. Onstage in 2006, "Fahrenheit 451" is getting a lot of attention again. Bradbury's tale,...
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The New York Observer
It\'d5s the End of the World, As Ray Bradbury Saw It
7/30/2006: 1,038 words, approx. 4 pages
For reasons I can’t explain, science fiction has always sent me to sleep. Perhaps it’s because I find living in the present scary enough. The pleasures of Ray Bradbury’s futuristic work—let alone H.G. Wells’—have passed me by. Even Truffaut’s film of Mr. Bradbury’s 1953 classic,...
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The New York Observer
It's the End of the World, As Ray Bradbury Saw It
7/30/2006: 1,038 words, approx. 4 pages
For reasons I can’t explain, science fiction has always sent me to sleep. Perhaps it’s because I find living in the present scary enough. The pleasures of Ray Bradbury’s futuristic work—let alone H.G. Wells’—have passed me by. Even Truffaut’s film of Mr. Bradbury’s 1953 classic,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by William F. Touponce
16,992 words, approx. 57 pages
In the following essay, Touponce examines the utopian construct and social criticism of Fahrenheit 451 through extensive analysis of dialectic; historical and psychological effect; and reader response.
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Critical Essay by Jack Zipes
6,887 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Zipes examines inconsistencies in Bradbury's sociopolitical criticism of post-World War II America in Fahrenheit 451.
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Critical Essay by Peter Sisario
3,008 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Sisario examines the source and significance of literary allusions in Fahrenheit 451 and considers their didactic potential for the beginning student of literature.
 
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Analysis of Fahrenheit 451
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The style, structure, theme, plot, and more about the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
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Essay Grade: 92%
"Fahrenheit 451" - Ray Bradbury
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This essay discusses the main themes of 'Knowledge vs. Ignorance' and Social conditioning, in "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury.
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Warnings Against Excessive Technology in "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles"
1,716 words, approx. 6 pages
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles" are both science-fiction novels that serve as warnings about the excesses of technology. Technology has produced lifeless societies in which people withdraw from each other to immerse themselves in distractions.
 


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