Brave new world
(2006, original release: 1932)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/HUXLEY,A

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Availability

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Fiction FICTION/HUXLEY,A Due: 1/30/2026

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006
©1932
EDITION
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition
DESCRIPTION

259, 22 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780060850524, 0060850523 :, 0060850523, 9780060850524, 9780099518471, 0099518473, 9781435282322, 1435282329, 9781417761036, 1417761032, 0060850523, 9780060850524
LANGUAGE
English
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"Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future--where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. 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 as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment" --Back cover

"Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order-all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. "A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine" (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history's keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites" --Amazon description