Brave New World, 9780099518471
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Perfect happiness demands a price: individuality is obsolete, soma is forever.
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Brave New World

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    288 pages

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    31 December 2007

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Summary

The Illusion of Utopia: A Journey into Huxley’s Brave New World

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.

INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD

Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley’s deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a socie…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099518471
ISBN-10:0099518473
Author:Aldous Huxley
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:31 December 2007
Weight:205g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 17mm
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Critics Review

‘A masterpiece of speculation… As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it’ Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale

‘A grave warning… Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling’ Observer

‘Huxley’s great dystopian novel’ Guardian

‘A fantastical look at the world in the future which made me look differently at the present’ – Katie Melua Observer

‘Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression, Huxley’s resources of sardonic invention have never been more brilliantly displayed’ The Times

‘A decade ago we smug inhabitants of the information technology age thought Huxley’s socio-biological satire had called history wrong. Then along came stem-cells” James Hawes “Not a work for people with tender minds and weak stomachs” – J.B. Priestly

About The Author

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) - bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material ‘progress’) and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world’s problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescalin experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954. Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.

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