{"product_id":"fahrenheit-451","title":"Fahrenheit 451","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Bradbury, Ray \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 16\/08\/1993,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 192 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780006546061,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43104729366572,"sku":"9780006546061","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780006546061.jpg?v=1713013282","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/fahrenheit-451","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}