In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.

"Fahrenheit 451-- the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ..."--T.p. "The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury"s masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood; and others ..."--back cover. $15.00.

Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- The hearth and the salamander -- The sieve and the sand -- Burning bright --. History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller -- Pt. 1. The story of Fahrenheit 451 -- The story of Fahrenheit 451 / by Jonathan R. Eller -- From The day after tomorrow: why science fiction? (1953) / by Ray Bradbury -- Listening library audio introduction (1976) / by Ray Bradbury -- Investing dimes: Fahrenheit 451 (1982, 1989) / by Ray Bradbury -- Coda (1979) / by Ray Bradbury -- Pt. 2. Other voices -- The novel -- From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / by Nelson Algren -- Books of the times / by Orville Prescott -- From New wine, old bottles / by Gilbert Highet -- New novels / by Idris Parry -- New fiction / by Sir John Betjeman -- 1984 and all that / by Adrian Mitchell -- From New maps of hell / by Sir Kingsley Amis -- Introduction to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / by Harold Bloom -- Fahrenheit 451 / by Margaret Atwood -- The motion picture -- Shades of Orwell / by Arthur Knight -- From The journal of Fahrenheit 451 / by FranÃœois Truffaut.