安·鲍尔斯和克拉拉·菲尔普斯夫人，（Ann Bowles, Clara Phelps）是缪德莉的朋友，代表社会的反智主义和享乐主义。在来家里玩的时候，她们抱怨生活中的不快，对即将到来的战争、她们的丈夫、孩子和政治感到不屑。菲尔普斯夫人的丈夫皮特应征入伍（她认为丈夫过一周就可以回来，这就是她认为战争和参加综艺节目差不多），觉得孩子不过是生活中的累赘。鲍尔斯结了三次婚，是位单身母亲。她的第一任丈夫抛弃了她，第二位丈夫出了事故，第三位丈夫自杀。她的两个孩子因疏于管教而十分叛逆：鲍尔斯夫人称自己的孩子打她，又因自己能够还手而感到自豪。当蒙塔格给她们读诗时，菲尔普斯感动落泪，而鲍尔斯夫人觉得这些文字伤了她的面子。
During Captain Beatty's recounting of the history of the firemen to Montag, he says, "Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more." The text is ambiguous regarding which century he is claiming began this pattern. One interpretation is that he means the 20th century, which would place the novel in at least the 24th century. "The Fireman" novella, which was expanded to become Fahrenheit 451, is set in October 2052.
In early editions of the book, Montag says, "We've started and won two atomic wars since 1960" in the first pages of The Sieve and the Sand. This sets a lower bound on the time setting. In later decades, some editions have changed this year to 1990 or 2022.
"The Pedestrian" would go on to be published in The Reporter magazine on August 7, 1951, that is, after the publication in February 1951 of its inspired work "The Fireman".
Gerall, Alina; Hobby, Blake. Fahrenheit 451. Bloom, Harold; Hobby, Blake (编). Civil Disobedience. Infobase Publishing. 2010: 148. ISBN 978-1-60413-439-1. While Fahrenheit 451 begins as a dystopic novel about a totalitarian government that bans reading, the novel ends with Montag relishing the book he has put to memory.
Crider, Bill. Laughlin, Charlotte; Lee, Billy C. , 编. Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451. Paperback Quarterly. Fall 1980, III (3): 22 [2015-12-25]. ISBN 978-1-4344-0633-0. （原始内容存档于2014-01-25）. The first paperback edition featured illustrations by Joe Mugnaini and contained two stories in addition to the title tale: 'The Playground' and 'And The Rock Cried Out.'
Aggelis, Steven L. (编). Conversations with Ray Bradbury. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2004: xxix. ISBN 1-57806-640-9. ...[in 1954 Bradbury received] two other awards—National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and Commonwealth Club of California Literature Gold Medal Award—for Fahrenheit 451, which is published in three installments in Playboy.
Nolan, William F. BRADBURY: Prose Poet In The Age Of Space. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Mercury). May 1963, 24 (5): 20. Then there was the afternoon at Huston's Irish manor when a telegram arrived to inform Bradbury that his first novel, Fahrenheit 451, a bitterly-satirical story of the book-burning future, had been awarded a grant of $1,000 from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Reid, Robin Anne. Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion. Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2000: 53. ISBN 0-313-30901-9. Fahrenheit 451 is set in an unnamed city in the United States, possibly in the Midwest, in some undated future.
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. Greasley, Philip A. , 编. Dictionary of Midwestern Literature. 1, The Authors. Indiana University Press. 2001: 78 [5 March 2014]. ISBN 9780253336095. Fahrenheit 451 is not set in any specific locale...
de Koster, Katie (编). Readings on Fahrenheit 451. Literary Companion Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. 2000: 35. ISBN 1-56510-857-4. Montag does not realize at first that she is gone, or that he misses her; he simply feels that something is the matter.
de Koster, Katie (编). Readings on Fahrenheit 451. Literary Companion Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. 2000: 32. ISBN 1-56510-857-4. The Mechanical Hound is an eight-legged glass and metal contraption that serves as a surveillance tool and programmable killing machine for the firemen, who use it to track down suspected book hoarders and readers.
Cusatis, John. Research Guide to American Literature: Postwar Literature 1945–1970. Facts on File Library of American Literature 6 New. New York, NY: Infobase Publishing. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4381-3405-5. He 'wept' when he learned at the age of nine that the ancient library of Alexandria had been burned.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 audio guide. The Big Read. [2015-02-18]. （原始内容存档于2017-05-24）. Well, we should learn from history about the destruction of books. When I was fifteen years old, Hitler burned books in the streets of Berlin. And it terrified me because I was a librarian and he was touching my life: all those great plays, all that great poetry, all those wonderful essays, all those great philosophers. So, it became very personal, didn't it? Then I found out about Russia burning the books behind the scenes. But they did it in such a way that people didn't know about it. They killed the authors behind the scenes. They burned the authors instead of the books. So I learned then how dangerously（原文如此） it all was.|at=被忽略 (帮助)
Kelley, Ken. Playboy Interview: Ray Bradbury. Playboy. raybradbury.com. May 1996 [2015-02-18]. （原始内容存档于2019-08-17）. In the movie business the Hollywood Ten were sent to prison for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and in the Screen Writers Guild Bradbury was one of the lonely voices opposing the loyalty oath imposed on its members.
Beley, Gene. Ray Bradbury uncensored!. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse. 2007. ISBN 978-0-595-37364-2. 'I was angry at Senator Joseph McCarthy and the people before him, like Parnell Thomas and the House Un-American Activities Committee and Bobby Kennedy, who was part of that whole bunch,' Bradbury told Judith Green, San Joe Mercury News theatre critic, in the October 30, 1993, edition. 'I was angry about the blacklisting and the Hollywood 10. I was a $100 a week screenwriter, but I wasn't scared—I was angry.'
Bradbury, Ray. Preface. Albright, Donn; Eller, Jon (编). Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 1st. Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Publications. 2006: 9. ISBN 1-887368-86-8. For many years I've told people that Fahrenheit 451 was the result of my story 'The Pedestrian' continuing itself in my life. It turns out that this is a misunderstanding of my own past. Long before 'The Pedestrian' I did all the stories that you'll find in this book and forgot about them.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Mercury). May 1963, 24 (5): 23. Ray Bradbury calls this story, the first of the tandem, 'a curiosity. I wrote it [he says] back in 1947–48 and it remained in my files over the years, going out only a few times to quality markets likeHarper's BazaarorThe Atlantic Monthly, where it was dismissed. It lay in my files and collected about it many ideas. These ideas grew large and became ... FAHRENHEIT 451.'缺少或|title=为空 (帮助)
Eller, Jon. Albright, Donn; Eller, Jon , 编. Writing by Degrees: The Family Tree of Fahrenheit 451. Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 1st (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Publications). 2006: 68. ISBN 1-887368-86-8. The specific incident that sparked 'The Pedestrian' involved a similar late-night walk with a friend along Wilshire Boulevard near Western Avenue sometime in late 1949.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 audio guide. The Big Read. [2015-02-18]. （原始内容存档于2017-05-24）. When I came out of a restaurant when I was thirty years old, and I went walking along Wilshire Boulevard with a friend, and a police car pulled up and the policeman got up and came up to us and said, 'What are you doing?'. I said, 'Putting one foot in front of the other' and that was the wrong answer but he kept saying, you know, 'Look in this direction and that direction: there are no pedestrians' but that give me the idea for the 'The Pedestrian' and 'The Pedestrian' turned into Montag! So the police officer is responsible for the writing of Fahrenheit 451.|at=被忽略 (帮助)
de Koster, Katie (编). Readings on Fahrenheit 451. Literary Companion Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. 2000: 158. ISBN 1-56510-857-4. He writes 'The Phoenix（原文如此）,' which he will later develop into the short story 'The Fireman,' which will eventually become Fahrenheit 451.
Eller, Jon. Albright, Donn; Eller, Jon , 编. Writing by Degrees: The Family Tree of Fahrenheit 451. Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 1st (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Publications). 2006: 68. ISBN 1-887368-86-8. As Bradbury has often noted, 'The Pedestrian' marks the true flashpoint that exploded into 'The Fireman' and Fahrenheit 451.
de Koster, Katie (编). Readings on Fahrenheit 451. Literary Companion Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. 2000: 164. ISBN 1-56510-857-4. The short story which Bradbury later expanded into the novel Fahrenheit 451, was originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, vol. 1, no. 5（February 1951）, under the title 'The Fireman.'
Eller, Jon. Albright, Donn; Eller, Jon , 编. Writing by Degrees: The Family Tree of Fahrenheit 451. Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 1st (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Publications). 2006: 57. ISBN 1-887368-86-8. In 1950 Ray Bradbury composed his 25,000-word novella 'The Fireman' in just this way, and three years later he returned to the same subterranean typing room for another nine-day stint to expand this cautionary tale into the 50,000-word novel Fahrenheit 451.
Baxter, John. A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict. Macmillan. 2005: 393. ISBN 9781466839892. When it published the first edition in 1953, Ballantine also produced 200 signed and numbered copies bound in Johns-Manville Quintera, a form of asbestos.
Reid, Robin Anne. Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion. Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2000: 53 [2015-02-23]. ISBN 0-313-30901-9. （原始内容存档于2014-06-29）. In a 1982 afterword...
Tuck, Donald H. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. 1: Who's Who, A–L. Chicago, IL: Advent. March 1974: 62. ISBN 0-911682-20-1. LCCN 73091828. Special edition bound in asbestos—200 copies ca. 1954, $4.00 [probably Ballantine text]
Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury Online. spaceagecity.com. [September 4, 2013]. （原始内容存档于2017-05-16）. 200 copies were signed and numbered and bound in 'Johns-Manville Quinterra,' an asbestos material.
de Koster, Katie (编). Readings on Fahrenheit 451. Literary Companion Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. 2000: 164. ISBN 1-56510-857-4. A special limited-edition version of the book with an asbestos cover was printed in 1953.
Weller, Sam. The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury. HarperCollins. 2006: 208 [2015-02-23]. ISBN 978-0-06-054584-0. （原始内容存档于2014-04-30）. To fulfill his agreement with Doubleday that the book be a collection rather than a novel, the first edition of Fahrenheit 451 included two additional short stories—'The Playground' and 'And the Rock Cried Out.'（The original plan was to include eight stories plus Fahrenheit 451, but Ray didn't have time to revise all the tales.）'The Playground' and 'And the Rock Cried Out' were removed in much later printings; in the meantime, Ray had met his contractual obligation with the first edition. Fahrenheit 451 was a short novel, but it was also a part of a collection.
de Koster, Katie (编). Readings on Fahrenheit 451. Literary Companion Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press. 2000: 159. ISBN 1-56510-857-4. A serialized version of Fahrenheit 451 appears in the March, April, and May 1954 issues of Playboy magazine.
Crider, Bill. Lee, Billy C.; Laughlin, Charlotte , 编. Reprints/Reprints: Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451. Paperback Quarterly. Fall 1980, III (3): 25 [2015-02-23]. （原始内容存档于2014-06-30）. The censorship began with a special 'Bal-Hi' edition in 1967, an edition designed for high school students...
Karolides, Nicholas J.; Bald, Margaret; Sova, Dawn B. 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Second. Checkmark Books. 2011: 488. ISBN 978-0-8160-8232-2. In 1967, Ballantine Books published a special edition of the novel to be sold in high schools. Over 75 passages were modified to eliminate such words as hell, damn, and abortion, and two incidents were eliminated. The original first incident described a drunk man who was changed to a sick man in the expurgated edition. In the second incident, reference is made to cleaning fluff out of the human navel, but the expurgated edition changed the reference to cleaning ears.
Karolides, Nicholas J.; Bald, Margaret; Sova, Dawn B. 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Second. Checkmark Books. 2011: 488. ISBN 978-0-8160-8232-2. After six years of simultaneous editions, the publisher ceased publication of the adult version, leaving only the expurgated version for sale from 1973 through 1979, during which neither Bradbury nor anyone else suspected the truth.
Crider, Bill. Lee, Billy C.; Laughlin, Charlotte , 编. Reprints/Reprints: Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451. Paperback Quarterly. Fall 1980, III (3): 25 [2015-02-23]. （原始内容存档于2014-06-30）. There is no mention anywhere on the Bal-Hi edition that it has been abridged, but printing histories in later Ballantine editions refer to the 'Revised Bal-Hi Editions.'
Quoted by Kingsley Amis in New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction（1960）. Bradbury directly foretells this incident early in the work: "And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talking coming in." p.12
Johnston, Amy E. Boyle. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted. LA Weekly website. May 30, 2007 [August 3, 2013]. （原始内容存档于2013-12-11）. Bradbury still has a lot to say, especially about how people do not understand his most famous literary work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953 ... Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
Eller, Jonathan R.; Touponce, William F. Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction. Kent State University Press. 2004: 91 [2015-02-18]. ISBN 9780873387798. （原始内容存档于2014-06-29）. The main target of Fahrenheit 451 is not censorship, as is often supposed, but rather mass culture...
Aggelis, Steven L. (编). Conversations with Ray Bradbury. Interview by Shel Dorf. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2004: 99. ISBN 1-57806-640-9. I am a preventor of futures, not a predictor of them. I wrote Fahrenheit 451 to prevent book-burnings, not to induce that future into happening, or even to say that it was inevitable.
Bustard, Ned (2004), Fahrenheit 451 Comprehension Guide, Veritas Press.
McGiveron, R. O. What 'Carried the Trick'? Mass Exploitation and the Decline of Thought in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Extrapolation (Liverpool University Press). 1996, 37 (3): 245–256. ISSN 0014-5483.
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