Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que estan prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento.El Sabueso Mecanico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyeccion hipodermica, escoltado por helicopteros, esta preparado para rastrear a los disidentes que aun conservan y leen libros.Como 1984, de George Orwell, como Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 describe una civilizacion occidental esclavizada por los medios, los tranquilizantes y el conformismo.La vision de Bradbury es asombrosamente profetica: pantallas de television que ocupan paredes y exhiben folletines interactivos; avenidas donde los coches corren a 150 kilometros por hora persiguiendo a peatones; una poblacion que no escucha otra cosa que una insipida corriente de musica y noticias transmitidas por unos diminutos auriculares insertados en las orejas.Fahrenheit 451 es el mas convincente de todos los infiernos conformistas. Kingsley Amis
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9789703707034
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Book
Animal Farm
By Orwell, George
Complete and unabridged audiobook on compact disc. Includes 3 CDs.
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9780736692427
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Audiobook
The Inferno
By Ciardi, John
Belonging in the company of the works of Homer and Virgil, The Inferno is a moving human drama, a journey through the torment of Hell, an expression of the Middle Ages, and a protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan.
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9780451531391
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Paperback
Lord of the Flies
By Hanscombe, G
In the PENGUIN STUDY NOTES series and originally published in 1986 as GOLDING'S LORD OF THE FLIES, a study guide to the novel, aimed at those preparing for the GCSE examination. It includes character studies, summaries of the plot with examinations of the background and major themes, as well as suggesting topics for discussion.
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9780140772869
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Book
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
By Achebe, Chinua
This volume gathers together some of the best critical essays on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Written in very straightforward prose, the simplicity of style belies the complexity of the novel in which there are no absolute stereotypes and no easy strategies for separating truth and fiction. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.
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9780791063361
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Library Binding
The Radioactive Boy Scout
By Silverstein, Ken
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments - building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion - were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed.In The Radioactive Boy Scout, veteran journalist Ken Silverstein recreates in brilliant detail the months of David's improbable nuclear quest. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. (Ironically, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was his number one source of information.) Scavenging antiques stores and junkyards for old-fashioned smoke detectors and gas lanterns - both of which contain small amounts of radioactive material - and following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town's forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah.An outrageous account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris that sits comfortably on the shelf next to such offbeat science books as Driving Mr. Albert and stories of grand capers like Catch Me If You Can, The Radioactive Boy Scout is a real-life adventure with the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.From the Hardcover edition.
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9781588363565
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Book
LA Buena Tierra
By Buck, Pearl S
A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.
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9788426105141
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Print book
Ein anderer Frieden.
By Knowles, John
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9783551580511
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Im Westen nichts Neues
By Remarque, Erich Maria
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9783351014346
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Il mio nome Asher Lev
By Potok, Chaim
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9788811667582
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As I Lay Dying
By Faulkner, William
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
Fahrenheit 451
By Bradbury, Ray
Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que estan prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento.El Sabueso Mecanico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyeccion hipodermica, escoltado por helicopteros, esta preparado para rastrear a los disidentes que aun conservan y leen libros.Como 1984, de George Orwell, como Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 describe una civilizacion occidental esclavizada por los medios, los tranquilizantes y el conformismo.La vision de Bradbury es asombrosamente profetica: pantallas de television que ocupan paredes y exhiben folletines interactivos; avenidas donde los coches corren a 150 kilometros por hora persiguiendo a peatones; una poblacion que no escucha otra cosa que una insipida corriente de musica y noticias transmitidas por unos diminutos auriculares insertados en las orejas.Fahrenheit 451 es el mas convincente de todos los infiernos conformistas. Kingsley Amis
Animal Farm
By Orwell, George
Complete and unabridged audiobook on compact disc. Includes 3 CDs.
The Inferno
By Ciardi, John
Belonging in the company of the works of Homer and Virgil, The Inferno is a moving human drama, a journey through the torment of Hell, an expression of the Middle Ages, and a protest against the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan.
Lord of the Flies
By Hanscombe, G
In the PENGUIN STUDY NOTES series and originally published in 1986 as GOLDING'S LORD OF THE FLIES, a study guide to the novel, aimed at those preparing for the GCSE examination. It includes character studies, summaries of the plot with examinations of the background and major themes, as well as suggesting topics for discussion.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
By Achebe, Chinua
This volume gathers together some of the best critical essays on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Written in very straightforward prose, the simplicity of style belies the complexity of the novel in which there are no absolute stereotypes and no easy strategies for separating truth and fiction. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.
The Radioactive Boy Scout
By Silverstein, Ken
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments - building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion - were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed.In The Radioactive Boy Scout, veteran journalist Ken Silverstein recreates in brilliant detail the months of David's improbable nuclear quest. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. (Ironically, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was his number one source of information.) Scavenging antiques stores and junkyards for old-fashioned smoke detectors and gas lanterns - both of which contain small amounts of radioactive material - and following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town's forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah.An outrageous account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris that sits comfortably on the shelf next to such offbeat science books as Driving Mr. Albert and stories of grand capers like Catch Me If You Can, The Radioactive Boy Scout is a real-life adventure with the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.From the Hardcover edition.
LA Buena Tierra
By Buck, Pearl S
A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.
Ein anderer Frieden.
By Knowles, John
Im Westen nichts Neues
By Remarque, Erich Maria
Il mio nome Asher Lev
By Potok, Chaim
As I Lay Dying
By Faulkner, William
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
Sidhartha
By Hesse, Hermann