Fahrenheit 451

Five things I learned that I think will be important to understanding the novel 

- The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the burning point of paper.

-Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian (a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening) novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1953.

-The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.

-The novel has been the subject of interpretations primarily focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas.

-Bradbury stated that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time about the threat of book burning in the United States.

Source: Fahrenheit 451 Wiki Entry