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008			170308r20121953nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a9781451690316
040			_aMIUC _beng _cMIUC
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100	1		_92998 _aBradbury, Ray, _d1920-2012
245	1	0	_aFahrenheit 451 / _cRay Bradbury.
246	3	2	_aFahrenheit four hundred fifty-one
260			_aNew York, etc. : _bSimon & Schuster Paperbacks, _c2012.
300			_a158 p. ; _c17 cm.
500			_aOn the front page: "Fahrenheit 451--the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns."
520			_aGuy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. 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 then 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. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
650		0	_92999 _aBook burning
650		0	_93000 _aCensorship
650		0	_9269 _aTotalitarianism
650		0	_91100 _aState-sponsored terrorism
655		0	_9395 _aScience fiction
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