In a future American society where books are banned and firemen burn any that are found, Guy Montag has spent his career destroying literature until a series of encounters—with a curious teenage girl, a suicidal wife, and a professor—begin to awaken his buried doubts. As Montag's rebellion grows, he becomes the target of the very system he once served. A prescient and poetic dystopian novel about censorship, conformity, and the danger of a society without critical thought.