Fahrenheit 451
A Novel
Simon & Schuster · Print & ebook · January 10, 2012
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A familiar classic with enough layers to reward a slower, second look.
- Themes
- dystopian society, censorship, awakening
- Pacing
- Steady
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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.
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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.
Why It Clicks
A familiar classic with enough layers to reward a slower, second look.
Come here for
- classroom-ready classic
- layered, discussion-friendly prose
Expect
- sustained narrative read
- study or assignment use
Where it sits
| Dystopian | 94% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi | 60% |
| The Classics | 52% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Media Tie-In
- Sci-Fi
- Authors
- Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- January 10, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- dystopian society · censorship · awakening
- Reading lane
- The Classics