num_pages: 6
description: Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published over 50 years ago. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning…along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames…never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think…and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!
language: English
title: Fahrenheit 451
titlecomplete: Fahrenheit 451
characters: Professor Faber, Captain Beatty, Clarisse McClellan, The Mechanical Hound, Guy Montag, Mildred Montag
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, School, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2293704
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: Caedmon