num_pages: 192
description: <p><P>Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print&#44; Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury&#8242;s classic novel of censorship and defiance&#44; as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.<P>Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...<P>The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden.<P>Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years&#44; 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&#45;year&#45;old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.<P>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!</p>
language: en
title: Fahrenheit 451
publisher: Ballantine Books