![]() ![]() ![]() Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. ![]() He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born Augin Waukegan, Illinois. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. 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. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and here. ![]()
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