street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born Augin Waukegan, Illinois. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics) Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.
Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers.
Brave New World Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock. The classic 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. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. Even so, Montag is unhappy there is discord in his marriage. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Description:- Fahrenheit 451 (Flamingo Modern Classics) The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Fahrenheit 451,Brave New World and 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 Books Bundle Collection.
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