"FAHRENHEIT 451"

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in 1953. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title: "Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns...", also known as Autoignition temperature. The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.

(WIKIPEDIA)

"... The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity ..."

(The Golden Age of Science Fiction)

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THE WRITER:

RAY BRADBURY

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction.

Bradbury was mainly known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his science fiction and horror story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and I Sing the Body Electric! (1969). Most of his best known work is in fantasy fiction, but he also wrote in other genres, such as the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film as well as comic books.

The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

(WIKIPEDIA)

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E X T R A   I N F O:

DUTCH EDITION

TRANSLATED BY:

C. BUDDINGH'

Cornelis "Kees" Buddingh' (7 August 1918 – 24 November 1985) was a Dutch poet, TV-presenter, translator. Amongst others he translated A Clockwork Orange and the complete works of William Shakespeare into Dutch. His son Wiebe Buddingh‘ later became the translator of Harry Potter into the Dutch language. The C. Buddingh'-prijs literary award is named after him.

(WIKIPEDIA)

COVER ILLUSTRATION BY:

RUDY VAN GEFFEN

Rudy van Giffen was born in Bandung, in the colonial Dutch East Indies. There he drew a comic called 'Vliegtuig Vermist' for Wapenbroeders in 1948. He eventually settled in Holland, where he was introduced to the art world by Eppo Doeve. Through the Toonder Studios, he briefly drew a strip inspired by Alex Raymond's 'Jungle Jim' with scripts by Walling Dijkstra in Pum Pum. He quit after only a couple of episodes, and the strip was continued by Gerrit Stapel. Van Giffen did a lot of advertising illustrations and was a successful book illustrator, for instance for Kluitman pocket books. He is the illustrator of 22 'Tarzan' paperback covers and covers for 'Bob Evers' and 'Biggles' books. He died in Limoux, France, in July 2005.

(www.lambiek.net)

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS EDITION:

DE LANGE JAREN

THE LONG YEARS

(FROM: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES)

EEN GELUID ALS VAN ONWEER

A SOUND OF THUNDER

(FROM: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN)

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THE PUBLISHER:

UITGEVERIJ HET SPECTRUM

UTRECHT / ANTWERPEN

PRISMA POCKET

NR. 551

1960

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SIZED:

CENTIMETERS: 10,5 X 18

PAGES: 192

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CONDITION

GENERAL:

GOOD

COVER:

BIT RUBBED AND DISCOLOURED, CORNERS AND EDGES LIGHTLY BUMPED

SPINE:

IDEM AND SOME SMALL DAMAGES

PAGES: 

DISCOLOURED, HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE

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