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: 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: 2293657
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: Perfection Learning