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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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Description for Brave New World
Paperback. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204. 229pp
Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.
Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley’s deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance – no matter the cost.
'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099518471
SKU
9780099518471
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About Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley ... Read more
Reviews for Brave New World
It is impossible to read Brave New World without being impressed by Huxley's eerie glimpses into the present
New Statesman
The 20th century could be seen as a race between two versions of man-made hell - the jackbooted state totalitarianism of Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four, and the hedonistic ersatz paradise of Brave New World, where absolutely everything is a ... Read more
New Statesman
The 20th century could be seen as a race between two versions of man-made hell - the jackbooted state totalitarianism of Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four, and the hedonistic ersatz paradise of Brave New World, where absolutely everything is a ... Read more