Fahrenheit 451
Edition: First edition, second printing
Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: mass market paperback
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780345342966
Copyright date: 1982
Description: Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, 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-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.

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!
--back cover