Ray Bradbury was one of those rare individuals whose writing changed the way people think. Education-schools in Waukega and Los Angeles.Aka-Leonard Douglas, William Elliott, Douglas Spaulding, Leonard Spaulding.Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think.and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do! ( From the publisher.) 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. 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. The hero, a book burner, suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas that cry out silently when put to the torch. First published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 is a classic novel set in the future when books forbidden by a totalitarian regime are burned.
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