經典反烏托邦小說,一部對思想自由與現代社會冷漠提出警醒的文學作品。在這個書籍被視為非法、消防員負責焚書的世界裡,蓋·蒙塔格一開始從未質疑自己的工作,直到遇見鄰居克莉絲。她談論過去、提起書本與自由,點燃了他內心的疑問。Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. 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,