Internationally recognized, with over five million copies in circulation, Ray Bradbury's classic novel "Fahrenheit 451" is a story about censorship and the people who defy it - a book just as relevant today as it was when it was first published nearly sixty years ago.

"The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books had to be burned, along with the houses where they were hidden." Guy Montag was a fireman, and his job was to start fires. He enjoyed starting fires. For ten years, he did this work, and he never questioned the pleasure he felt during the night raids or the joy he experienced when he saw the pages surrendering to the flames... Nothing troubled him until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who spoke to him about the past, about the time when people were not afraid. And then he met a professor who told him about the future, about the days when people would be able to think. Suddenly, Guy Montag realized what he had to do...

Bradbury's robust and poetic prose, along with his unusual foresight regarding the potential of technology, combine to create a prophetic narrative about the enslavement of Western civilization to the media, drugs, and conformity - a narrative on par with Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World."

"A story that disturbs the reader as it explores what happens when ignorance - in its most extreme form - is considered a virtue." ("The Times")