Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Instead of putting out fires, fireman Guy Montag’s 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. And so he secretly hoards and reads the books he’s meant to burn, fighting to preserve the hidden world of printed knowledge that survives.