Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
KORTE INHOUD
'BRAVE NEW WORLD', with introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw.
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. . . Huxleys ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
ALDOUS HUXLEY was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, 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 of contemprary society. For most of the 1920s...
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. . . Huxleys ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
ALDOUS HUXLEY was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, 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 of contemprary society. For most of the 1920s...
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