Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Book description
The system was simple.  Everyone understood it.  Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.  Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires.  And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames… never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.  Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think.  And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do… Published in 1953; 190 pages.
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Additional information
Author’s website features biography and video interview with Ray Bradbury.

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