Nine days — and $9.80 in dimes later — he'd written 'Fahrenheit 451.' Almost. What he'd finished there was 'The Fireman,' a short story published in Galaxy magazine in 1951. Later, he expanded ...

This is the premise of Ray Bradbury's acclaimed science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which became the source ... the narrative remains the same, as fireman Montag (Oskar Werner) begins to ...