Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

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Book Overview: Fahrenheit 451

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

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Editorial Reviews

"Brilliant . . . Startling and ingenious . . . Mr. Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating." –Orville Prescott, The New York Times

"A masterpiece . . . A glorious American classic everyone should read: It's life-changing if you read it as a teen, and still stunning when you reread it as an adult." –Alice Hoffman, The Boston Globe

"The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarates . . . His is a very great and unusual talent." –Christopher Isherwood, Tomorrow

"One of this country's most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic." –Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

About the Author

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury was an acclaimed American author and screenwriter known for his prolific contributions to the science fiction and mystery genres. Born in Illinois in 1920, his love for writing emerged at a young so that by the age of 12, he had begun writing his own stories. Bradbury’s most renowned works include “Fahrenheit 451,” “The Martian Chronicles,” and “Something Wicked This Way Comes.”

Over his career, he wrote more than 400 short stories and close to 50 books. Bradbury received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Arts in 2004 and a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 2007. Beyond books, his ideas were also manifested across television, film, and theater. Bradbury passed away in 2012, leaving an indelible legacy in literature.