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Brave New World And Brave New World Revisited

by Aldous Huxley; Christopher Hitchens


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A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography.

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9780060535261
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Hardcover
Publisher

Harpercollins
Date

2004
Price

$9.35
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9780701127695
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Hardcover
Publisher

Chatto & Windus
Date

1984
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None Available
 
9780060901011
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Paperback
Publisher

Perennial
Date

1942
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$1.08
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9780060776091
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Paperback
Publisher

Perennial
Date

2005
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$8.50
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Publisher Notes

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.

Media Reviews

"He has satirized the imminent spiritual trustification of mankind, and has made rowdy and impertinent sport of the World State whose motto shall be Community, Identity, Stability....So here we have [Mr. Huxley], as entertainingly atrabilious as ever he was...mocking the Fords, the Hitlers, the Mussolinis..."

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A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.

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