Phoenix Distribution Fahrenheit 451

<p>The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness.<br /> <br /> Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> The classic novel of a post-literate future,&nbsp;<i>Fahrenheit 451</i>&nbsp;stands alongside Orwell's&nbsp;<i>1984</i>&nbsp;and Huxley's&nbsp;<i>Brave New World</i>&nbsp;as a prophetic account of Western civilisation's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.<br /> <br /> Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.</p>