![]() ![]() ![]() Frank Baum’s Oz novels to science fiction pulp magazines. The genesis of Fahrenheit 451 is an interesting one, built from real incidents and other short stories, beginning in 1951.īradbury was born on August 22 nd, 1920, where he grew up reading everything he could get his hands on, from L. There are books everywhere, hidden in people's heads!" So wrote Bradbury in the 1993 forward to his landmark novel. "The book-burning bigot, hearing this, realizes that the whole town has hidden books by memorizing them. As the years have gone on, it's become increasingly apparent that Fahrenheit 451 is one of the most important literary contributions to the genre, combining an important metaphor regarding free expression with a cynical counter to the optimistic science fiction that had preceded it. Of all the books that I read for class, this was the one that stood out the most: Bradbury's vivid, crisp prose and thunderbolt of a message electrified every synapse in my brain, and I read it several times after that, outside of class. This has long been one of my favorite novels, introduced to me by the appropriately named Mrs. Last month, we looked at dystopian novels on this column, and with the summer heat wave coming, looking at Ray Bradbury's landmark novel Fahrenheit 451 seems appropriate. ![]()
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