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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Schöne Neue Welt
hardcover
German language
Published Oct. 22, 2015 by FISCHER Taschenbuch.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-596-52092-3Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
288 pages
English language
Published June 18, 2001 by Voyager.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-711589-1Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
8 h 0 m; narrated by Michael York
Published by Michael York.
- ISBN:
- 978001252Copied ISBN!
Hea uus ilm
Hardcover, 237 pages
Estonian language
Published Nov. 8, 2008 by Tänapäev.
- ISBN:
- 978-9985-62-675-7Copied ISBN!
Brave new world
270 pages
English language
Published Sept. 26, 1989 by Perennial Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-080983-6Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz
188 pages
Spanish language
Published Aug. 13, 1993 by Plaza & Janes.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-01-37458-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 31324572
Brave New World
paperback
Published Oct. 1, 2011 by Diesterweg Moritz.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-425-09557-8Copied ISBN!
Brave new world
340 pages
English language
Published July 24, 2004 by HarperCollins.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-053526-1Copied ISBN!
Schöne Neue Welt
hardcover
German language
Published Sept. 26, 2013 by FISCHER Taschenbuch.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-596-95015-7Copied ISBN!
Mei li xin shi jie
255 pages
Chinese language
Published Nov. 8, 2005 by Chongqing chu ban she.
- ISBN:
- 978-7-5366-7180-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 64668696
Brave new world
263 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1999 by Transaction.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-56000-522-3Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz
Hardcover, 256 pages
Spanish language
Published 2020 by Debolsillo, Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-663-5094-5Copied ISBN!
Brave New World. Interpretationshilfe
English language
Published Aug. 17, 2005
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4058-0171-3Copied ISBN!
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