Brave New World

“Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English.” - Chicago Tribune“One of the 20th century’s greatest writers.” - Washington Post“A genius … a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.” - The New Yorker“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“Chilling… . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” - Providence Journal-Bulletin“A sometimes appallingly accurate view of today’s world.” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch“It’s time for everyone to read or reread Brave New World.” - Raleigh News & Observer”[A] masterpiece. … One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century.” - Wall Street Journal

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.