In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour …
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In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, Brave New World is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 1977
- GoodReads:
- 5129
- BNF ID:
- 119472943
Editions of Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited
Paperback, 336 pages
English language
Published July 7, 1942 by Harper Perennial.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-090101-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 48099604
Schone neue Welt
paperback, 368 pages
English, German language
Published July 16, 2014 by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, FISCHER Taschenbuch.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-596-90573-7Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz
Paperback, 267 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 8, 1994 by Plaza & Janés.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-01-42285-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 434055181
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Paperback, 402 pages
English language
Published July 24, 2007 by Vintage Canada.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-35655-0Copied ISBN!
Brave new world
Paperback, 200 pages
English language
Published March 9, 1974 by Penguin, Penguin Modern Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-001052-7Copied ISBN!
Brave new world
Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1994 by Flamingo.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-654579-8Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
Hardcover, 280 pages
English language
Published Aug. 13, 2013 by Neal-Schuman publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-71236-4Copied ISBN!
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Hardcover, 112 pages
English language
Published by Chelsea House Publications.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7910-7566-1Copied ISBN!
Admirável Mundo Novo
21 cm, 256 pages
português language
Published April 17, 2016 by Folha de S. Paulo.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-7949-272-3Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz
Paperback, 200 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 16, 1983 by Plaza & Janés.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-01-42113-6Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 5190751
Un mundo feliz
Paperback, 255 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 30, 1998 by Plaza & Janés.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-01-42321-5Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz
Paperback, 202 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 16, 2003 by Debolsillo.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9759-425-7Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
eBook, 135 pages
English language
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-014-0Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 11517032
Un mundo feliz
Paperback, 199 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 30, 2013 by Editores Mexicanos Unidos.
- ISBN:
- 978-607-14-1107-5Copied ISBN!
Le Meilleur Des Mondes
Mass Market Paperback, 284 pages
French language
Published Oct. 11, 2002 by Pocket, Presses Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-12856-8Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 632416
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