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Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

Fahrenheit 451

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.

Driving Blind

A 451 degrés Fahrenheit représentent la température à laquelle un livre s'enflamme et se consume. Dans cette société future où la lecture, source de questionnement et de réflexion, est considérée comme un acte antisocial, un corps spécial de pompiers est chargé de brûler tous les livres, dont la détention est interdite pour le bien collectif.

Par une nuit de tempête, un romancier en panne d'inspiration reçoit l'étrange visite de Constance Rattigan, une actrice mythique. Elle se sent persécutée. Pour preuve, ce «livre des morts» déposé devant chez elle et dans lequel sont énumérées les personnalités défuntes qu'elle a connues autrefois, ainsi que le nom de morts à venir. Elle figure sur cette liste... 
Afin de venir en aide à son amie et de percer ce mystère, l'auteur plonge dans le passé de la star, convoque le fantôme de ses producteurs, de ses partenaires connus et inconnus, ressuscitant ainsi l'univers légendaire du Hollywood de la grande époque. 
À la fois satire et célébration d'un univers perdu, Il faut tuer Constance, manière d'autobiographie imaginaire, achève le cycle dédié à Constance Rattigan initié par La solitude est un cercueil de verre et prolongé par Le fantôme d'Hollywood.

Il faut tuer constance

Kaleidoscope and other short stories

One of Ray Bradbury's classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.

 S IS FOR SPACE is a spine-tingling short story collection from one of the genre's master storytellers.

 Science fiction, fantasy, small town life, and small town people are the materials from which Ray Bradbury weaves his unique and magical stories of the natural and supernatural, the past, the present , and the future.

 This book contains sixteen of Bradbury's most popular science fiction stories.

S is for Space

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades. This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...

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