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 & 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 escorted by helicopters is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve & read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future ' Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' & Huxley's ' Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media drugs & conformity. Bradbury's powerful & 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 & shock.