Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print,<b> Fahrenheit 451</b> is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.<br><br>Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... <br><br>The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden. <br><br>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. <br><br>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!