num_pages: 224
description: Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....
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: Modern Library