Nearly seventy years after its original publication Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed
novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak dystopian future.
Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His 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.
