Fahrenheit 451

Sixty years after its first publication, Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today, the novel’s message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it 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, but when he meets an eccentric young neighbor 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.