Brave New World

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified …

178 editions

Paperback, 310 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 1956 by Modern Library.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-092987-9
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OCLC Number:: 20156268
Goodreads:: 5129

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Subjects

Passivity (Psychology) -- Fiction
Genetic engineering -- Fiction
Totalitarianism -- Fiction
Collectivism -- Fiction

Places

London

Reviews

Lars reviewed Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

5 stars

4.6

marionline reviewed Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Read for School

2 stars

Read in and for English class in school. Would likely not have read it on an other occasion, although the themes and things discussed are thought provoking, I didn't really enjoy the book.

ouch6854@comelibros.club reviewed Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A bit too "on-the-nose"

3 stars

I guess it might be the point of the book, but I couldn't feel that any character was real, everything felt stereotypical; while at the same time that "prediction" of the future does not seem plausible to me.

And I repeat, it might be the point of the book, so, if that is the case, then great job. I just did not enjoy it or gained any interesting insight.

dsctm3 reviewed Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Another Authoritarianism dystopian classic. A difficult read however.

3 stars

Read this immediately afte reading the Orwell classic, 1984. I admit, I struggled reading this book. The method of story telling, with the switching of character perspective was difficult to follow. The idea of the book became far more clearer as the book progressed and became clear especially towards the end.

However the ideas presented in the book and their demonstration was thought provoking.