Ray Bradbury (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

The author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles is among the bestknown science fiction/fantasy writers today.This title, Ray Bradbury, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Ray Bradbury through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Ray Bradbury, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

Includes "Bless Me, Father, For I Have Sinned", "Come, and Bring Constance!", "By The Numbers!", "The Toynbee Convector", "One For His Lordship and One For the Road!" This book the 'Toynbee Convector' is a very clever collection of Bradbury's works. Each story is unique and it is well worth searching used book stores for this one.

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian soft science fiction novel that was first published in 1953. It is set in a society where censorship is prevalent, and moronic citizens learn only from television. Most books are banned and critical thought is suppressed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a "fireman" (which, in this case, means "book burner"). 451 degrees Fahrenheit is stated as "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns …". It was originally published as a shorter novella, The Fireman, in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. A film adaptation, by Franзois Truffaut, was released in 1966, and another is anticipated.