num_pages: 172
description: Alternate cover edition ISBN 0006546064 / 9780006546061Guy 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 these dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.The classic novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a classic of twentieth-century literature which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
language: English
title: Fahrenheit 451
titlecomplete: Fahrenheit 451
characters: The Mechanical Hound, Captain Beatty, Clarisse McClellan, Mildred Montag, Professor Faber, Guy Montag
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Adult, Dystopia, Novels, School, Audiobook, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 2293037
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Geffen Award
category: Best Translated SF Book, awardedAt: -536428800000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver), awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Flamingo