Books Details
Author : Ray Bradbury Pages : 6 pages Publisher : Audible Studios Language :
eng ISBN-10 : B00M4OO96Q ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork
of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by
Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his
world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen
start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of
commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning
each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her
television "family". But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse,
who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present
where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless
chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly
disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever
