{"id":1908,"date":"2024-01-31T00:40:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1908"},"modified":"2024-02-21T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:31:23","slug":"fahrenheit-451-paperback-international-edition-january-1-2008","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/book\/fahrenheit-451-paperback-international-edition-january-1-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahrenheit 451 [Paperback]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The classic novel of a post-literate future, &#8216;Fahrenheit 451&#8217; stands alongside Orwell&#8217;s &#8216;1984&#8217; and Huxley&#8217;s &#8216;Brave New World&#8217; as a prophetic account of Western civilization&#8217;s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bradbury&#8217;s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1416,1357],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1908","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-fiction","product_cat-literature","pa_dimensions-5-08-x-0-63-x-7-76-inches","pa_format-paper-book","pa_isbn-13-1350","pa_language-english-en","pa_publisher-harpervoyager-gb","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybookstore.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}