Internationally acclaimed with more thanfive million copies in print, Fahrenheit451 is Ray Bradbury’s classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published fifty years ago.

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the Pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames.., never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...

PART ONE

The Hearth and the Salamander

PART TWO

The Sieve and the Sand

PART THREE

Burning Bright

Afterword

Coda