Rank 77 of 100
Fahrenheit 451
Synopsis
Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books in a society that gave them up for wall-sized screens and the comfort of not being disturbed. Bradbury’s warning is less about a government decree than about people who decide, gradually, that thinking hurts and entertainment doesn’t.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1953
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Dystopian, Science fiction
- Audience
- Young adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Postwar
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 249 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction