The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where boo ks are burned by a special task force of firemen. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbi dden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhapp y; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanic al Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by hel icopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve a nd read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, ‘Fahrenheit 451’ st ands alongside Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ as a prophetic acc ount of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the pote ntial of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publicat ion, still has the power to dazzle and shock.