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Read on Archive.org → Cover image from Wikimedia CommonsRay Bradbury · 1951 · Novella
This story is available to read right now on the Internet Archive, linked to the exact page where it begins.
Read on Archive.org → Cover image from Wikimedia CommonsMontag is a fireman in a future America where his job is to burn books, not save buildings. Houses are fireproof; books are not. After meeting Clarisse, a teenage neighbor who asks whether he is happy, Montag begins stealing books from the houses he raids. When his wife Mildred reports him, Montag kills his captain, Beatty, and flees to join a network of book-memorizers living along the railroad tracks, each person becoming a living repository of a single work. As war breaks out and the city is bombed flat, the memorizers walk back toward the ruins to begin rebuilding. This novella was later expanded into Fahrenheit 451.
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