雷‧布萊伯利享譽國際的小說《華氏451度》出版七十餘年後，依然是世界文學的經典之作，故事背景設定在一個陰鬱的反烏托邦未來世界。如今，它所傳遞的訊息比以往任何時候都更具現實意義。
蓋伊·蒙塔格是一名消防員。他的工作是銷毀最違禁的商品──印刷書籍，以及藏匿書籍的房子。蒙塔格從未質疑過自己行為造成的破壞和毀滅，日復一日地回到他平淡無奇的生活，陪伴著整天沉浸在電視「家庭」中的妻子米爾德里德。然而，當他遇到一位古怪的年輕鄰居克拉麗絲時，克拉麗絲向他展現了一個人們不再生活在恐懼中的過去，以及一個人們不再沉溺於電視的無意義閒聊，而是透過書籍中的思想來看待世界的當下，蒙塔格開始質疑他所熟知的一切。
More than seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy 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.
