A Pleasure to Burn

This article is about the Ray Bradbury book. For other uses, see Pleasure to Burn.

A Pleasure to Burn
A Pleasure to Burn cover
AuthorRay Bradbury
Cover artistJoseph Mugnaini
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCensorship
GenreScience Fiction
Published2011 Harper Collins
Publication placeUSA
ISBN1596062908

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.

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.

This collection contains 16 selected short stories that prefigure Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and they can be seen as the origins for the novel's themes exploration and story. The book includes, among other titles, the novellas Long After Midnight and The Fireman.

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