Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. Read the dystopian classic.EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSEWelcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of 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.Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel,written in 1932,which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost.'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'ObserverOne of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099518471Number of pages: 288Weight: 204 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 18 mm
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Huxley's nightmare,set out in Brave New World,his great dystopian novel,was that we would be undone by the things that delight usThe most prophetic book of the 20th century... If you have time for just one book,this would be my top choice.A brilliant tour de force,Brave New World may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance. Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. Provoking,stimulating,shocking and dazzlingSuch ingenious wit,derisive logic and swiftness of expression,Huxley's resources of sardonic invention have never been more brilliantly displayedAldous Huxley was uncannily prophetic,a more astute guide to the future than any other 20th century novelist ... Nineteen Eighty-Four has never really arrived,but Brave New World is around us everywhereIt is impossible to read Brave New World without being impressed by Huxley's eerie glimpses into the present
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