Brave New World: With the Essay "Brave New World Revisited" by Aldous Huxley (En

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Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Huxley's story shows a futuristic World State where all emotion, love, art, and human individuality have been replaced by social stability. An ominous warning to the world's population, this literary classic is a must-read.

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Publisher Description

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spiritA masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works. --Wall Street Journal The beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Brave New World also includes Huxley's essay, Brave New World Revisited and features a foreword by Christopher HitchensAldous 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 a 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.

Back Cover

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. 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. 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. This deluxe edition also includes the nonfiction work "Brave New World Revisited," "a thought-jabbing, terrifying book" (Chicago Tribune), first published in 1958. It is a fascinating essay in which Huxley compares the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World. He scrutinizes threats to humanity such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. With a Foreword by Christopher Hitchens

Author Biography

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.

Review

"[A] masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century."--Wall Street Journal
"A genius . . . a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine."--The New Yorker
"A sometimes appallingly accurate view of today's world."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English."--Chicago Tribune
"As sparkling, as provocative, as brilliant...as the day it was published."--Martin Green
"Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing."--Providence Journal-Bulletin
"Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time."--New York Times Book Review
"It's time for everyone to read or reread Brave New World."--Raleigh News & Observer
"One of the 20th century's greatest writers."--Washington Post

Long Description

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." -Chicago Tribune Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. From the author of The Doors of Perception, Island, and countless other works of fiction, non-fiction, philosophy, and poetry, comes this powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations. Brave New World remains absolutely relevant to this day as both a cautionary dystopian tale in the vein of the George Orwell classic 1984, and as thought-provoking, thoroughly satisfying entertainment.

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"One of the 20th century's greatest writers."

Description for Teachers/Educators

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.

Details ISBN0061767646 Author Aldous Huxley Language English ISBN-10 0061767646 ISBN-13 9780061767647 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Short Title BRAVE NEW WORLD Series Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions Residence ENK Birth 1894 Death 1963 Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-01-19 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2010-01-19 NZ Release Date 2010-01-19 US Release Date 2010-01-19 UK Release Date 2010-01-19 Pages 384 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Subtitle With the Essay "Brave New World Revisited" Audience General

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  • Condition: Brand new
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 9780061767647
  • Author: Aldous Huxley
  • Book Title: Brave New World

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