The hauntingly prophetic traditional novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by an unique job force of firefighters. ‘Another indispensable traditional’ The Times” Ray Bradbury’s present for storytelling improved our culture and expanded our world’ Barack Obama Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and misery. Nevertheless, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marital relationship. Are books hidden in his home? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, equipped with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is all set to find those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The timeless dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands together with Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury’s effective and poetic prose combines with incredible insight into the capacity of innovation to produce an unique which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to impress and shock.
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