Fahrenheit 451 (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

by Ray Bradbury

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1984

It is a fitting fate for such a wonderful work, a book which deserves to be as famous as its thematic cousins ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’

Brave New World

It is a fitting fate for such a wonderful work, a book which deserves to be as famous as its thematic cousins ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’

Millay

“Did you ever read any of the books you bum?” He laughed. “That’s against the law!” “Oh. Of course.” “It’s fine work. Monday bum Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then bum the ashes. That’s our official slogan.”

Whitman

“Did you ever read any of the books you bum?” He laughed. “That’s against the law!” “Oh. Of course.” “It’s fine work. Monday bum Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then bum the ashes. That’s our official slogan.”

Faulkner

“Did you ever read any of the books you bum?” He laughed. “That’s against the law!” “Oh. Of course.” “It’s fine work. Monday bum Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘em to ashes, then bum the ashes. That’s our official slogan.”

Book of Fairy Tales

At the last fire, a book of fairy tales, he’d glanced at a single line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel. “Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.”

Little Black Sambo

Coloured people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it.

Dante

We burned copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius.

Swift

We burned copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius.

Marcus Aurelius

We burned copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius.

Book of Ecclesiastes

I thought I had part of the Book of Ecclesiastes and maybe a little of Revelation, but I haven’t even that now.

Revelation

I thought I had part of the Book of Ecclesiastes and maybe a little of Revelation, but I haven’t even that now.

The Fingers in the Glove; the Proper Relationship between the Individual and Society

Myself: I wrote a book called The Fingers in the Glove; the Proper Relationship between the Individual and Society, and here I am!

Plato's Republic

Would you like, some day, Montag, to read Plato’s Republic?” “Of course!” “I am Plato’s Republic. Like to read Marcus Aurelius? Mr. Simmons is Marcus.

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Seattle, Washington
"Fourth day. “Montag, a funny thing. Heard tell this morning. Fireman in Seattle, purposely set a Mechanical Hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose. What kind of suicide would you call that?”"
Oxford, England
"Beatty rubbed his chin. “A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555.”"
Iowa, United States
"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year."
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
"Montag, get in touch with me in St. Louis, I’m leaving on the five a.m. bus this morning, to see a retired printer there."
Youngstown, Ohio, United States
"“Do we have a Book of Ecclesiastes?” “One. A man named Harris of Youngstown.”"
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"This is Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School."
Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States
"Professor West here did quite a bit for ethics, an ancient study now, for Columbia University quite some years ago."
Los Angeles, California
"…if you keep walking far enough and keep an eye peeled, they say there’s lots of old Harvard degrees on the tracks between here and Los Angeles."
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
"This other is Dr. Simmons from U.C.L.A., a specialist in Ortega y Gasset;"