![]() ![]() This book also includes the full text of Brave New World Revisited, Huxley's 1958 nonfiction followup to Brave New World. "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." -Chicago Tribune 'When the Future Looked Brave and New' A recent book review of Huxleys selected letters, edited by James Sexton. 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. 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. “A genius 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. Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsĪldous 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. The book is in new condition but expect marking on the edge of the book*īrave New World and Brave New World Revisited - softcover ![]()
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