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
Hardcover
English language
Published Dec. 8, 1932 by HarperCollins Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-012037-5Copied ISBN!
Brave new world
310 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1950 by Harper.
- OCLC Number:
- 908757
Brave New World
Published July 31, 1978 by Perennial Library Harper & Row Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-080466-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 4943287
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
246 pages
English language
Published 2015 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5188-3365-6Copied ISBN!
Brave new world and Brave new world revisited.
444 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1969 by Distributed by Heron Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 110732
Brave New World
Audio CD, 300 pages
Published June 2, 2005 by bnpublishing.com.
- ISBN:
- 978-978-8352-10-5Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
234 pages
English language
Published Sept. 28, 2020 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-6780-0181-8Copied ISBN!
Un mundo feliz
253 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 8, 1969 by Diana.
- ISBN:
- 978-968-13-0435-5Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
CD-ROM, 250 pages
Published Oct. 8, 2005 by bnpublishing.com.
- ISBN:
- 978-956-291-276-1Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
English language
Published Dec. 18, 2011 by RosettaBooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7953-1125-3Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
Hardcover
English language
Published Dec. 8, 1995 by Harpercollins.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-012035-1Copied ISBN!
Brave New World
Published Aug. 13, 1932 by Neal-Shuman publishing.
- ISBN:
- 97803757123648Copied ISBN!
Brave new world
177 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1946 by Harper and Row.
Brave new world
176 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1971 by Folio Society.
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