Rays of Sunshine. Color Illustrated Fairy Tales Book.Published in 1893 by McLoughlin Bros. Has 36 framing quality color pages, each with raised glossy paint sections. Stories are: The Frog Who Would A-Wooing Go, The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, The Silly Hare, Cinderella, and Cock Robin. Wonderful renderings illustrating old classic stories.
Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.60 | Fiction literature | 14 April 2009
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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.
