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Man-made fire: illustrating Fahrenheit 451

Man-made fire: illustrating Fahrenheit 451 Encyclopaedia Britannica defines fire as: ‘one of the human race’s essential tools, control of which helped start it on the path toward civilization.’ The novel Fahrenheit 451 challenges the statement: ‘toward civilization’. It’s bleak distopian look at the destruction of the book, is explored here, in illustrations of fire-tools designed to destroy, taken from American online archives.

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