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In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
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The acclaimed author of Bleeding London spins a yarn of academia, lunacy, and the blurry lines between them in this novel.
It all starts at Cambridge University, where Dr. John Bentley throws his book burning parties-"a little active, symbolic literary criticism"-in which guests are invited to state their grudges against their least favorite books, and then toss them into a fire. It is at one such party that the brilliant but sheepish Gregory Collins...
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Colección Ave fénix volume 182
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Español
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Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante más de 10 años, y siempre le gustó su trabajó. Nunca cuestionó nada --ni la emoción de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder-- hasta que conoció a una niña de diecisiete años que le mostró un pasado en el que la gente no tenía miedo...
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Portuguese
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Guy Montag é um bombeiro. Dele emprego consiste em destruir livros proibidos e as casas onde esses livros estão escondidos. Ele nunca questiona a destruição causada, e no final do dia regressa para a sua vida apática com a esposa, Mildred, que passa o dia imersa na sua televisão. Um dia, Montag conhece a sua excêntrica vizinha Clarisse e é como se um sopro de vida o despertasse para o mundo. Ela apresenta-o a um passado onde as pessoas viviam...
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"A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained. 1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence...
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Ballantine Books
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Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
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Spark Pub
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2014, ©2007
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Features explanations of the key themes, motifs, and symbols including censorship, blood, animals and nature, paradoxes, the sieve and the sand, and knowledge vs. ignorance. It also includes detailed analysis of these important characters: Guy Montag, Mildred Montag, Captain Beatty, and Professor Faber.
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