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
268 pages
Published June 9, 2005 by LONGMAN YORK NOTES.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-082141-8Copied ISBN!
Brave New World (75th Anniversary Edition)
Audio CD
English language
Published Jan. 16, 2008 by BBC Audiobooks America.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60283-336-4Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz/Brave New World
Paperback, 255 pages
Spanish language
Published Oct. 31, 2002 by Debolsillo.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-8450-241-8Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz
Hardcover, 240 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 30, 1965 by Círculo de Lectores.
Brave New World
Audio CD, 250 pages
Published Oct. 1, 2005 by bnpublishing.com.
- ISBN:
- 978-956-291-277-8Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
English language
Published Aug. 17, 2013 by Everyman.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-84159-359-3Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz
Rústica, 242 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 8, 1999 by Ediciones Leyenda S. A..
- ISBN:
- 978-968-5146-02-9Copied ISBN!
Un Mundo Feliz
Paperback, 211 pages
Spanish language
Published March 8, 2004 by Debolsillo.
- ISBN:
- 978-987-1138-51-7Copied ISBN!
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