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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Le Meilleur des Mondes
Mass Market Paperback
French language
Published June 8, 2002 by Presse Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-11313-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 122257092
Brave New World
235 pages
Published 2007 by Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-35654-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 132305919
Schöne Neue Welt
350 pages
German language
Published Aug. 17, 2020 by S. Fischer Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-10-390008-8Copied ISBN!
Un Mundo Feliz
Paperback, 128 pages
Published Dec. 30, 2003 by Geminis.
- ISBN:
- 978-968-7968-60-5Copied ISBN!
Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
English language
Published Aug. 17, 2003
- ISBN:
- 978-0-87891-751-8Copied ISBN!
Brave new world
Paperback
English language
Published Aug. 17, 1969 by HarperCollins Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-083095-3Copied ISBN!
Fagre Nye Verden
212 pages
Danish language
Published Aug. 17, 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-87-7070-141-9Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 25789379
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited
Paperback, 336 pages
English language
Published July 7, 1942 by Harper Perennial.
Brave new world
422 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2003 by Everbind.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-9710756-9-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 60420197
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