“Would you like to come to my place for dinner?” Yes, he thought, that was the right thing to say. Lately, Montag had been acting less like they were lovers and more businesslike, something he had not done since the early days of his working at the firehouse.īeatty smiled reassuringly and put a hand on Montag’s shoulder. “Yes, sir?” Montag stood up straight to address his captain and Beatty sighed. He knew he could not protect Montag if the truth came out, and the love of his life would be arrested and sent to a mental asylum, never to be seen again. The captain only feared the suspicion of the others. He, of course, knew about the books that Montag had been stockpiling for years now. Beatty would be lying if he said he wasn’t concerned by it. Bradbury was honored with a Spoken Word Grammy nomination for his 1976 audiobook version.The younger man froze and looked around frantically like a cornered animal.

It later won the Prometheus 'Hall of Fame' Award in 1984 and a 'Retro' Hugo Award, one of a limited number of Best Novel Retro Hugos ever given, in 2004. In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature.

In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. The novel has been the subject of interpretations focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas for change.

The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings. The book's tagline explains the title as ''the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns': the autoignition temperature of paper. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and 'firemen' burn any that are found. Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury.

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