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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 known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

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'Another indispensible classic.' -- The Times 'Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe.' -- The Guardian 'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else.' -- The Daily Telegraph 'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination.' -- The Spectator 'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas - with dsicipline.' -- The Sunday Telegraph

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Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. Tim Robbins is an Academy Award-winning actor as well as an accomplished film director, writer and activist.

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