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From the totalitarianism of “1984” to the censorship of “Fahrenheit 451,” authors manifest these weaknesses in an exaggerated manner, allowing them to make bold statements about the world. Yet, this ...

Paper is easily torn, pages ripped off a book or a notebook, but it takes intense heat to burn them—Fahrenheit 451, to recall the title of Ray Bradbury’s famous novel about book-burning.

For years, state lawmakers have told students and educators across Tennessee that they needed to improve literacy rates. The state revamped testing expectations and changed its funding formula in ...

A prime example can be found in the recently published Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury (Jonathan R. Eller, ed., Simon & Schuster). Ray Bradbury was no stranger to censorship; his ...

Other titles are usually studied in classrooms, including "Of Mice and Men," "Fahrenheit 451," "Lord of the Flies," and "The Outsiders." ...

In "Fahrenheit 451," Rad Bradbury presents a dystopian future in which books are outlawed and firemen are tasked with torching any surviving books in an effort to censor ideas and eradicate knowledge.

American dystopian classic “Fahrenheit 451” by the late Ray Bradbury encapsulates the dark realities of a society without books, intellectual curiosity, or critical thinking.

Ray Bradbury, author of the sci-fi classics Fahrenheit 451. (Getty Images) A frighteningly prophetic novel, “ Fahrenheit 451 ” is set in a dystopian future where there are no books.

Summary Oskar Werner and Julie Christie star in this 1966 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut. The story is about the "firemen" of the ...

And Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," about a world where all books are outlawed, rose 333% in sales as of Thursday, CNN reported. By Friday, "1984" was at No. 13 on Amazon's list and "Fahrenheit ...