{"product_id":"9780007496969_fahrenheit-451","title":"Fahrenheit 451","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe hauntingly prophetic classic novel.\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOver 1 million copies sold in the UK.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, forty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ray Bradbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284882571413,"sku":"9780007496969","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007496969.jpg?v=1776992138","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007496969_fahrenheit-451","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}