{"product_id":"fahrenheit-451-9781451673265","title":"Fahrenheit 451","description":"\u003cb\u003eNearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eFahrenheit 451 \u003c\/i\u003estands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuy Montag is a fireman. 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 when 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, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBradbury, Ray:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSomething Wicked This Way Comes\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay \u003ci\u003eThe Halloween Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for \u003ci\u003eThe Ray Bradbury Theater\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBradbury, Ray:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Illustrated Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSomething Wicked This Way Comes\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay \u003ci\u003eThe Halloween Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for \u003ci\u003eThe Ray Bradbury Theater\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50583781081362,"sku":"9781451673265","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88585bc9-5d48-4d44-b52c-b52bb5275368.jpg?v=1732031497","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fahrenheit-451-9781451673265","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}