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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

By Aldous Huxley, Christopher Hitchens (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9780060776091

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The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistentlContinue

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

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  • The book from the future

    I just read this book about 5 years ago. It's really dark , and if it happens in the future, I wouldn't like to be there. If you like the 1984 from Orwell, you will like this book too.

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    Ildikó Tóth said on May 14, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • Read this right after reading 1984 coz I remembered my English teacher telling me that I should read both.
    Another classic that everyone should read.

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    Savio Tang said on Feb 8, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • Mustafa Mond : was him so far from out world

    It's the question I ask myself since I read this book more or less 15 year ago

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    Gian Marco said on Sep 22, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • A New Utopia

    Civilization has created a Utopia. With the intake of Soma people are calm, and care free. There is no longer such a thing as a family. Babes are not born to Mothers and Fathers but created in test-tubes in a factory and belong to everyone. When Bernard, a sleep hypnotic professional, decides ... (continue)

    Civilization has created a Utopia. With the intake of Soma people are calm, and care free. There is no longer such a thing as a family. Babes are not born to Mothers and Fathers but created in test-tubes in a factory and belong to everyone. When Bernard, a sleep hypnotic professional, decides to visit the savage reservations in New Mexico, he discoveries two savages that do not belong. A woman who Bernard discoveries as a woman from civilization that became lost years ago and found herself stuck in the savage reserve. The woman gave birth to a boy while in the reserve, John. Bernard takes both of the people from the reserve back into civilization. The rest of the book is about how John does not understand the ways of civilized life and civilization does not understand John yet they are fascinated with him.

    The book starts out kind of slow. Once the main characters emerge, the book begins to pick up. It slows down again once the Savage is brought back to civilization. And again, Picks up once the Savage is transferred to an island.

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    Kamatherly said on Apr 12, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • oh my ford, another wonderful dystopia book. as good as the handmaid's tale. it's scary to think that we are kind of heading in that direction. Conditioning our young through national education in schools... the people sacrificing freedom of speech and action for peace, order and harmony. the alloca ... (continue)

    oh my ford, another wonderful dystopia book. as good as the handmaid's tale. it's scary to think that we are kind of heading in that direction. Conditioning our young through national education in schools... the people sacrificing freedom of speech and action for peace, order and harmony. the allocation of resources and welfare of the people controlled by an elite ruling few. Funny how Huxley knew to mention Singapore when he wrote this way by in the 1930s.

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    zeyens said on Mar 14, 2009 | Add your feedback

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