Book

Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray 1920-2012 (author.).

Summary: Guy Montag is a fireman. his job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Record details

ISBN: 1451673310 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 9781451673319 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: xvi, 249 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm
regular print
print
Edition: 60th Anniversary edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.
Copyright: ©1951.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Fahrenheit 451 -- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns..." Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, 1953.
Formatted Contents Note:	Includes (pages 167-249): History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller. Part one: the story of Fahrenheit 451 -- Part two: other voices.