Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Category: Classic, Literature, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Dystopia USA

Written by Ray Bradbury
Read by Penn Badgley
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. 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 when 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, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

First published: 1953
Simon & Schuster Audio, May 2025
4 hours and 36 minutes