Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel "Fahrenheit 451"is a masterwork
of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is
a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink
of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. 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 then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse,
who introduces him