num_pages: 147
description: A not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, where individuals and scholars are outcasts and where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Montag, trained by the state to be a destroyer, throws away his can of kerosene and begins to read a book.
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: 2294201
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: Ballantine Books