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Which Ray Bradbury novel about a future where books are burned was itself secretly altered in school editions for years?
Answer
Fahrenheit 451
Ballantine Books produced a special 'Bal-Hi' school edition of Fahrenheit 451 that quietly removed profanity and other passages without Bradbury's authorization, a fact he only discovered years later.
💡 Did you know?
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" about book burning was itself heavily censored in schools, with passages removed without his permission for decades.
Other options people guess
- Brave New World
- 1984
- Slaughterhouse-Five
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- censorship
- ray-bradbury
- dystopian-fiction
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