Banned Books: Buy a hardback edition of 'Fahrenheit 451' for only £3.49
With The Independent by calling 08702 315 902, visiting your local retailer or by visiting www.pressoffers.co.uk/bannedbooks
Monday, 19 February 2007
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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.
Ray Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with an uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity that stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World.
Banned Books is an exclusive collection of 25 cutting-edge titles, censored classics and literary landmarks by authors including Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Andre Gide, Maya Angelou, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Miller and Ray Bradbury, specially published and packaged for Independent readers.
Their survival is a triumph of independent thought over the forces of repression, and a reminder of how exhilarating fiction at the cutting edge of the imagination can be. Every week, readers will be offered the featured title at a special discounted price. Each exclusive, collectable edition may be purchased directly from your newsagent, by calling a special free-phone number, or online.
If you need a volume or two to complete your collection or if you have missed out on the whole BANNED BOOKS series, call 08702 315 703 for a limited time where you can buy individual books for £3.49 + £1.50 p&p or order the whole series for £83.00 + £6 p&p. These unique and limited edition collections will be available for a short time only.
THE BOOKS
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms 3 March
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita 10 March
Aldous Huxley Brave New World 17 March
Franz Kafka Metamorphosis 24 March
Brendan Behan Borstal Boy 31 March
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary 7 April
Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 14 April
Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front 21 April
Leonard Cohen Beautiful Losers 28 April
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country 5 May
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 12 May
D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover 19 May
William Burroughs Naked Lunch 26 May
Edmund White A Boy's Own Story 2 June
J.P. Donleavy The Ginger Man 9 June
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five 16 June
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 23 June
Hubert Selby, Jr. Last Exit to Brooklyn 30 June
Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince 7 July
Reinaldo Arenas Singing from the Well 14 July
André Gide The Vatican Cellars 21 July
Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer 28 July
Taslima Nasrin Shame 4 August
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 11 August
Books will be available to buy at selected retailers only - links to regional lists of participating retailers follow (pdf format):
Anglia | Borders | Carlton | Central | Grampian | Granada | HTV Wales | HTV West Country | Meridian | Scotland | TV South | Tyne Tees | Ulster | Yorkshire
If your local retailer is not on the list you can still reserve a copy of each week’s book by completing the form that will appear in-paper each Saturday and handing it to your newsagent.
Alternatively, click here to download the form and hand it in to your retailer.
To claim your collection of books for only £3.49 each, simply take one of the tokens that will be printed in The Independent every day from Saturday, 3 March, to your nearest participating retailer. A new book will be on sale every week.
Alternatively, you can claim your book by clicking the button below or by calling 08702 315703.
Terms and Conditions: 1. The relevant token from The Independent must be presented at a participating retailer or the relevant code must be used online or by phone to purchase your book for £3.49. Alternatively you can order by post using the coupon printed in The Independent newspaper. 2. A new title will be available each week for 25 weeks. 3. Subject to availability. 4. Photocopied tokens will not be accepted. 5. Terms and conditions apply.
