书名：Fahrenheit 451华氏451度难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数890L

作者：Ray Bradbury

出版社名称：Simon & Schuster

出版时间：2012

语种：英文

ISBN：9781451690316

商品尺寸：10.4 x 1.1 x 17.3 cm

包装：简装

页数：158 （以实物为准）

Fahrenheit 451《华氏451度》是当代科幻大师——雷·布拉德伯里的经典代表作，五十年前首次出版时引起巨大的轰动，被认为是反乌托邦小说的重要代表作。同时也是雷·布雷德伯利关于控制与对抗的代表作，有着多达500万册的发行量，备受世人推崇。《华氏451度》曾被美国国会图书馆评选为20世纪非常有影响力的100本小说之一，被BBC、纽约时报、泰晤士报受欢迎的100本书之一。 “Frightening in its implications… Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.” —The New York Times Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novelFahrenheit 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, 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.

华氏451度是纸的燃点。 故事发生在一个压制思想自由的世界里，这里所有的书被禁，消防员的工作不是灭火，而是焚书。小说主人公已经当了十年消防队员，但他从来没有怀疑过自己从事的工作，直到有一天他遇到一个奇特的女孩，开始对自己的工作产生疑虑，直至对这个世界发起挑战。 Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published over 50 years ago.  Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning… along with the houses in which they were hidden.  Guy Montag enjoyed his job. 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.  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! 

雷·布拉德伯里（Ray Bradbury）1920年8月22日生于美国伊利诺伊州沃奇根市。1938年高中毕业后，他白天在街头卖报，晚上则在公共图书馆读书、写作。1943年，他正式成为全职作家，为多种杂志撰写短篇小说，但直至1947年才正式出版他的第一部作品《黑暗嘉年华》。 1950年的长篇小说《火星纪事》是他的成名代表作，也为他奠立了科幻小说界的地位，其后陆续发表多部脍炙人口的经典名作，包括：《华氏451度》《图案人》《十月国度》《蒲公英酒》及《邪恶降临》等。他的创作速度与质量都十分惊人，多年来已出版近50部小说，其中包括约600篇短篇小说。他另著有多部散文集、诗集，以及广播剧、舞台剧、电视、电影等剧本。 雷·布拉德伯里的小说已被超过1000所美国公、私立学校选为教材或推荐读物。截至目前为止，他已获得的奖项包括：欧·亨利纪念奖（欧·亨利奖的地位如同美国短篇小说界的奥斯卡奖）、富兰克林奖、世界奇幻文学协会终生成就奖、美国科幻小说作家协会大师奖、美国西岸笔会终生成就奖，以及美国国家图书基金会颁发的美国文学特殊贡献奖。在文学领域之外，他亦曾入围奥斯卡zui佳动画短片剧本奖，并曾获艾美奖的zui佳广播剧剧本奖。美国“阿波罗号”航天员登陆月球后，甚至将月球上的火山口命名为“蒲公英火山口”，向布拉德伯里的小说《蒲公英酒》致敬，由此可见布莱伯利的地位之崇高、影响力之大。 Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)wasthe author of more than three dozen books, includingThe Martian Chronicles,The Illustrated Man,Dandelion Wine, andSomething Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’sMoby Dick and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories forThe Ray Broadbury Theater. 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. 

Chapter One  The Hearth and the Salamander It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame. He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered. 

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