Author: Ray Bradbury

Mass Market Paperback: 158 pages

Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition (1 May 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1451690312

ISBN-13: 9781451690316

Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 1 x 17.3 cm

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。

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, 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.

雷·布拉德伯里（Ray Bradbury，1920-2012）

生于美国伊利诺伊州的沃基根。自一九四三年起开始专业写作，他七十多年的写作生涯，激励了数代读者去幻想、思考和创新。他创作了数百篇短篇小说，出版近五十本书，此外还写了大量的诗歌、随笔、歌剧、戏剧、电视和电影剧本。

《华氏451》和《火星编年史》为他的代表作，奠定其科幻小说大师的地位。他被誉为二十世纪重要的美国作家之一，“将现代科幻领入主流文学领域的重要人物”。曾获2000年美国国家图书基金会卓越成就奖，2004年美国国家艺术奖章和2007年普利策特别褒扬奖。

2012年6月6日，九十一岁高龄的布拉德伯里病逝于洛杉矶。时任美国总统的巴拉克·奥巴马亲致悼词：“他的叙事才华重塑了我们的文化，拓宽了我们的世界。”