Fahrenheit 451

Hardcover, 151 pages

English language

Published March 17, 1979 by Del Rey.

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BOOKS ARE DANGEROUS— THEY MAKE YOU THINK!

Montag is a fireman—a fireman of a future time when books are forbidden and reading is the greatest crime. For books lead to thinking, thinking leads to dissatisfaction, and dissatisfaction can lead to a desire for change—a thing the government will do anything to pre- vent. Montag's job is not to extinguish fires but to set them: to burn the homes (occupied or not) of bookowners and, above all, to burn the books. He ac- cepts unquestioningly the necessity for his work; what he cannot understand is the criminals who persist in hiding, preserving, and even distributing the banned material.

And then one day Montag begins to read one of the books he has been destroying, and his life changes forever....

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Es un libro al que me gusta volver una y otra vez. Nunca se reflexiona lo suficiente sobre el valor de los libros, todo lo que nos aportan. Y una de las cosas más curiosas es que no hacen falta bomberos para quemarlos: una sociedad que no los valore será suficiente para verlos destruidos y olvidados.

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