April Reading Group: Fahrenheit 451
At the Reading Group in April, we'll be discussing Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. 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.
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. 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.
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Find it on the catalogue here.
This session will take place in the Rowswell Room on the second floor.
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Can't make it on Thursday? Why not come on Saturday instead?