Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury

<p>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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />The classic novel of a post-literate future, &apos;Fahrenheit 451&apos;stands alongside Orwell&apos;s &apos;1984&apos;and Huxley&apos;s &apos;Brave New World&apos;as a prophetic account of Western civilization&apos;s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury&apos;s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty y