A Pleasure to Burn
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published August 17, 2010. A companion to novel Fahrenheit 451, it was later released under the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins publishing was in 2011.
A Pleasure to Burn cover | |
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Joseph Mugnaini |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Censorship |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Published | 2011 Harper Collins |
| ISBN | 1596062908 |
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 this collection of 16 selected shorter works that prefigure Bradbury's 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.