Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

ISBN 10: 0060776099 / ISBN 13: 9780060776091

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060776099
• ISBN 13: 9780060776091
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.