A Pleasure to Burn
A Pleasure to Burn cover
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| Author | Ray Bradbury |
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| Cover artist | Joseph Mugnaini |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Censorship |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Published | (2011) Harper Collins |
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A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories is a collection of short stories and Fahrenheit 451 companion piece from author Ray Bradbury, first published August 17, 2010. First publishing under the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins publishing was in 2011.
Portions of A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories were previously published in the collection Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 and the chapbook The Dragon Who Ate His Tail.
The origins and evolution of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of 16 selected shorter works that prefigure Bradbury's landmark novel. Classic, thematically interrelated stories alongside many crucial lesser-known ones, including, at the collection's heart, the novellas Long After Midnight and The Fireman.
A man rises from his grave to try and reclaim his former life, only to find that he is no longer welcome in the world.
In the year 2349, the last cemetery on Earth is being removed. The bodies are to be burnt, as all others have been. Upon hearing the commotion of what is happening, the final corpse decides to rise in the night and hide from this ultimate fate. He learns that horror writers such as Poe and Lovecraft have had their books burned and removed from the planet, and that nobody in this future society knows what fear is. At this point, he decides that as the last anachronism of the former world, he will be the one to teach the new world of fear. This story is also found in Bradbury's short story collection S Is for Space.
Government officials raid a library to burn the last known copies of classic literature. This short could have been a scene cut from Fahrenheit 451.
When the town's chief censor comes to use the library as a testing ground for burning selected books, a librarian angers him with his strange behavior. Originally written in 1947, the premise was later expanded upon and turned into The Fireman, the novella which was later expanded upon and turned into Fahrenheit 451.
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