Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury was a writer and playwright who opened the doors of mainstream literature to science fiction and made topics like technology, gadgets, and the responsibility of scientists toward the future relevant to modern prose. Bradbury called his novel Fahrenheit 451 his only purely science fiction work. It depicts a state with a distorted value system. Technological progress has made life easier, but in the process, people have lost the ability to think and feel. Society is fragmented, and people prefer interacting with their televisions over each other. Firefighters no longer fight fires — they start them, burning books. The life of one such firefighter is upended by a chance encounter with a girl who has not lost her sense of beauty. The hero’s fate is tragic, but he is willing to pay the price for the chance to become truly human again. The book contains the full, unabridged, and unadapted original text of the novel.