Yet, Fahrenheit 451 is chillingly insightful. When Bradbury was a teenager, there were several memorable book-burning incidents. These included a campaign in the 1930s in Nazi Germany to ...

Shop now A masterful piece of dystopian fiction, Fahrenheit 451 is about a fireman whose ... and therefore must be destroyed. Our book-burning fireman Guy Montag, however, begins to question ...

American dystopian classic “Fahrenheit 451” by the late Ray Bradbury encapsulates the dark realities of a society without books, intellectual curiosity, or critical thinking.

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The disturbing act of book- burning is the key theme of science fiction writer Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel set in a future where unchecked technology has superseded human knowledge ...