Description
Ray Bradbury's hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. A prescribed novel for South African English Literature learners.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books — forbidden as the source of all discord and unhappiness. Yet Montag is unhappy, and discord grows in his marriage. The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic and escorted by helicopters, hunts down those who dare to preserve and read books.
Standing alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 is a powerful account of Western civilisation's enslavement by media, drugs, and conformity — still dazzling and shocking over fifty years after first publication.
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780006546061