num_pages: 184
description: This edition includes an Afterward and Coda. The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance. Winner of The National Book Award. The New York "Frightening in its implications... Mr Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating."
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: 2294062
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: Del Rey