RayBradbury’sinternationallyacclaimednovelFahrenheit451isamasterworkoftwentieth-centuryliteraturesetinableak,dystopianfuture.
GuyMontagisafireman.Inhisworld,wheretelevisionrulesandliteratureisonthebrinkofextinction,firemenstartfiresratherthanputthemout.Hisjobistodestroythemostillegalofcommodities,theprintedbook,alongwiththehousesinwhichtheyarehidden.
Montagneverquestionsthedestructionandruinhisactionsproduce,returningeachdaytohisblandlifeandwife,Mildred,whospendsalldaywithhertelevision“family.“Butthenhemeetsaneccentricyoungneighbor,Clarisse,whointroduceshimtoapastwherepeopledidn’tliveinfearandtoapresentwhereoneseestheworldthroughtheideasinbooksinsteadofthemindlesschatteroftelevision.
WhenMildredattemptssuicideandClarissesuddenlydisappears,Montagbeginstoquestioneverythinghehaseverknown.Hestartshidingbooksinhishome,andwhenhispilferingisdiscovered,thefiremanhastorunforhislife.
