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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Description
One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.
Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. Read the dystopian classic.
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers.
Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress . . .
Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good
- Category : Fiction - Science Fiction
- Published : 1932 (This Edition 2007 - Vintage Classics)
- ISBN : 9780099518471
- SKU : B004056
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'The best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient . . . Looking at our present trajectory we are on the way to Brave New World' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus.
'A masterpiece of speculation . . . As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' - Margaret Atwood.
'A grave warning . . . Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' - Observer.
'What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries of Brave New World has become fact. The consequences are profound and, if we don't get it right, deeply disturbing'. - John Humphries, The Sunday Times.
'It is impossible to read Brave New World without being impressed by Huxley's eerie glimpses into the present.' - New Statesman.
The Author
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books - both novels and non-fiction works - as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with an undergraduate degree in English literature.
