# Fahrenheit 451, Vol. 1

By **Ray Bradbury**

- ISBN-13: 9780006546061
- Series: [Fahrenheit 451 (Flamingo Modern Classics): The gripping and inspiring classic of dystopian science fiction](https://mybookbandits.com/series/fahrenheit-451-flamingo-modern-classics-the-gripping-and-inspiring-classic-of-dystopian-science-fiction)
- Publisher: Flamingo
- Pages: 227
- Published: 1 Jan 1993
- Language: en
- Price: £15.59 (new)
- Categories: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Dystopian, Classics, Political

## About this book

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.   Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside 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 powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

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