This book also includes the full text of Brave New World Revisited, Huxley's 1958 nonfiction followup to Brave New World. 'Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English.' -C hicago Tribune Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. “A genius who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” ( The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century' ( Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our 'brave new world'Īldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order-all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring 'masterpiece. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. In this twelve-part work of nonfiction, one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. Written more than twenty-five years later, Brave New World Revisited is a re-evaluation of his predictions based on the changes he witnessed over that time. When Aldous Huxley wrote his famous novel Brave New World, he did so with the belief that the dystopian world he created was a true possibility given the direction of the social, political and economic world order. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.' - New York Times Book Review Now more than ever: Aldous Huxleys enduring 'masterpiece.

'Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931.

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