The Brave New World Collection: Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Digital Original)

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Synopsis
Aldous Huxley&’s dystopian classic about a perfectly engineered society, and his book of essays reflecting on it almost three decades later, in one volume. This book includes: Brave New World: Half a millennium from now, no matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole, nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug soma. But when a man and woman journey beyond the confines of their ordered life to where the &“savages&” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show…Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels, a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit as relevant, if not more so, today than when it was written. Brave New World Revisited: Nearly thirty years after the publication of his groundbreaking novel, Huxley composed this collection of essays comparing the &“future&” of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s. Touching on subjects as diverse as world population, drugs, subliminal suggestion, and totalitarianism, it provides a fascinating look at ideas of early science fiction in the context of the real world. &“Aldous Huxley is the greatest twentieth-century writer in English.&” —Chicago Tribune &“A genius. . . . a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.&” —The New Yorker
Copyright:
1946

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
432 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780795300455
Publisher:
RosettaBooks
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Copyrighted By:
Aldous Huxley
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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