Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of a post-industrial society: it is a future world where all written publications are ruthlessly destroyed by a special squad of firefighters, the storage of books is prosecuted by law, interactive television successfully serves the universal dumbing down, punitive psychiatry resolutely deals with rare dissenters, and an electric dog goes hunting for incorrigible dissidents...