Fahrenheit 451

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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.

Ray Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with an uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity that stands alongside Orwells 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World.

This special edition of Bradbury's masterwork celebrates fifty years since its first publication and includes a new introduction by the author.

'A disturbing tale that explores the maxim "ignorance is bliss" to its fullest' The Times

'Fahrenheit 451 is the most skilfully drawn of all science fiction's conformist hells' Kingsly Amis