About the AuthorĪldous Huxley was born on 26th July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. With a Foreword by Christopher Hitchens -Wall Street Journal -This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. He scrutinizes threats to humanity such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. It is a fascinating essay in which Huxley compares the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World. This deluxe edition also includes the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, a thought-jabbing, terrifying book ( Chicago Tribune ), first published in 1958. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded and as a thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a utopian future, humans are genetically designed and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. "Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression, Huxley's resources of sardonic invention have been more brilliantly displayed" THE TIMES -This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. "Equally a denunciation of capitalism and communism, so far as they discourage man form thinking freely, 'Brave New World' is one of the most important books to have been published since the war" DAILY TELEGRAPH Full of barbed wit and malice-spiced frankness, 'Brave New World' is one of the most urgent appeals for a reconciliation of science with religion that our age has known" OBSERVER "A brilliant tour de force, 'Brave New World' may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress…Įxtraordinarily prophetic, 'Brave New World' is one of the most influential books of our century. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling only distaste for the endless pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free.
From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons, designed to perform menial tasks, man is bred and educated to be blissfully content with his pre-destined role.īut, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard Marx is unhappy. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought the human race to perfection.
Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the ideal society.
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