Fahrenheit 451

In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge o... (more)

In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear. (less)

"The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.... (more)

"The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires, and he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames. He never questioned anything until 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 in which people could think. Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do." -- Back cover. (less)

Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares ... (more)

Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. (less)