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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
Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. Read the dystopian classic.
EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSE
Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of 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.
Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter ... Read more
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
Huxley's nightmare, set out in Brave New World, his great dystopian novel, was that we would be undone by the things that delight us
Guardian
The most prophetic book of the 20th century... If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice. A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read ... Read more
Guardian
The most prophetic book of the 20th century... If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice. A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read ... Read more