Summary: Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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Summary: In Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires but start them--to burn books. It's a time when trivial information is valued and true knowledge perceived as dangerous and subversive. Guy Montag is a fireman with a wife who's goading him to work harder so they could afford another television set. When Montag befriends their neighbor Clarisse, whose love for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRAHamilton, Tim.
Summary: As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art the uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HAMBradbury, Ray
Summary: Fireman Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to start fires. And he loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Then he meets a seventeen-year old girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think. And Guy Montag knows what he has to do ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1991
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Summary: In Bradbury's futuristic novel, the knowledge gained from books is forbidden, and television replaces deep thought with vapid and menial information. Firefighter Guy Montag is assigned to locate, confiscate, and burn books. He is content with his life and job until he discovers the valuable knowledge found within books. Now, Guy must decide to either continue his stale existence or abscond with...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BRASummary: Nazi propaganda piece: Book-burning by Nazi -sympathizing students, then political prisoners at Oranienburg, one of the first concentration camps. Biased, doesn't show horrors, in fact it probably whitewashes it.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1933
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Summary: Anti-Semitism (such as book burning) under Hitler (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Anti-Semitism (such as book burning) under Hitler (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940