Fahrenheit 451 (Flamingo Modern Classics)

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

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 and escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

A 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
• 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.