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Explore membershipsFahrenheit 451
A Novel
Narrator
Penn Badgley
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Length
4 hours 48 minutes
Language
English
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“I came to Bradbury late—at twenty-seven—but I compensated by basing half of my PhD research on his short stories. This, however, is the book he is most remembered for, a dystopian future envisioned from the middle of the twentieth century that in plenty of unsettling ways resembles the one we live in now. Ray once cussed out a class of students at UCLA for telling him the book is about censorship. To him it had more to do with the immortality of great stories.”
— Steve • Tsunami Books
A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley!Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.Guy Montag is a fireman. 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 when 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, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.
Penn Badgley is an actor, director, producer, writer, and podcaster best known for his starring roles in the CW’s Gossip Girl and Netflix’s You. He lives in New Paltz, New York, with his wife, two children, and two dogs.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Ray Bradbury
Narrator:
Penn Badgley
ISBN:
9781668133798
Length:
4 hours 48 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:
May 6, 2025
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#413 Overall
Genre rank:
#8 in Classics
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