Other editions of book Fahrenheit 451

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or 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. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do.

451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper catches fire. In this dysfunctional future, the term "fireman" has taken on a new meaning. He doesn't put out fires - he starts them! Whenever an illegal cache of books is discovered, the Fire Department is called upon, to reduce those evil printed thingies to ashes. 39 printings in 19 years, including special editions! And that only gets us up to 1972, when this fantastic fire-goddess cover was printed.