451° Fahrenheit—the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of a post-industrial society: a future world in which all written publications are mercilessly destroyed by a special fire brigade, book possession is prosecuted, interactive television successfully serves the purpose of universal dumbing down, punitive psychiatry deals decisively with rare dissidents, and an electric dog is dispatched to hunt down incorrigible dissidents...
The novel that brought its author worldwide fame.