Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper catches fire and burns. Bradbury’s philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of a post-industrial society: it is a future world where all printed publications are ruthlessly destroyed by a special squad of firefighters, and book-keeping is punishable by law; interactive television successfully serves mass brainwashing; punitive psychiatry deals decisively with rare dissenters; and an electric dog goes hunting for unrepentant dissidents… The novel that brought its creator worldwide fame.