Fahrenheit 451

5 hrs. 52 min.

Language Russian

Author Ray Bradbury

Narrator Vladimir Zaytsev

Description

"There is a crime worse than burning books. For example— not reading them…"
"Magazines turned into a kind of vanilla syrup. Books—into sweetened sewage…"
"A person can’t tolerate what goes beyond the ordinary…"
"A person these days is like a paper napkin: they blow their nose into it, crumple it, throw it away, take a new one, blow their nose again, crumple it, throw it away…"
"Once, only a few people read books—here and there, in different places. That’s why books could be different. The world was wide. But when the world became too cramped for the eyes, elbows, mouths, when the population doubled, tripled, quadrupled—the content of films, radio broadcasts, magazines, and books fell to a known standard. Such a universal chewing gum…"

In 1967, the novel became a victim of censorship. More than seventy sentences were changed, and two passages were completely rewritten. And only starting in 1980 did the full version of the book begin to be published.