Brave New World
Vintage Classics Most Red Series
Published in 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-78487-590-9 (ISBN)
Description
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.
'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything.'
Science. Technology. Want for nothing. Maximum pleasure. Welcome to a world where society exists without war, poverty, sickness or unhappiness, where instant gratification and mass consumerism sooth the inhabitants into happy conformity. One man stands to challenge all this: Bernard Marx, alone in harbouring a longing to break free. His attempt to do so sets off a chain of events that could disrupt everything.
Is this Brave New World that Huxley imagined where we are headed, or are we already there? Take the drugs and float away through Huxley's relentless cityscape, and you might find answers to questions you didn't know you should be asking.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI
'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything.'
Science. Technology. Want for nothing. Maximum pleasure. Welcome to a world where society exists without war, poverty, sickness or unhappiness, where instant gratification and mass consumerism sooth the inhabitants into happy conformity. One man stands to challenge all this: Bernard Marx, alone in harbouring a longing to break free. His attempt to do so sets off a chain of events that could disrupt everything.
Is this Brave New World that Huxley imagined where we are headed, or are we already there? Take the drugs and float away through Huxley's relentless cityscape, and you might find answers to questions you didn't know you should be asking.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI
Reviews / Votes
The most prophetic book of the 20th century... If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice. -- Yuval Noah Harari It is impossible to read Brave New World without being impressed by Huxley's eerie glimpses into the present * New Statesman * The 20th century could be seen as a race between two versions of man-made hell - the jackbooted state totalitarianism of Orwell's Nineteen Eight-Four, and the hedonistic ersatz paradise of Brave New World, where absolutely everything is a consumer good and human beings are engineered to be happy -- Margaret Atwood Aldous Huxley was uncannily prophetic, a more astute guide to the future than any other 20th century novelist ... Nineteen Eighty-Four has never really arrived, but Brave New World is around us everywhere -- J G Ballard A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance. Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling * Observer *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 129 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78487-590-9 (9781784875909)
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Person
Aldous Huxley came to literary fame in 1921 with his first novel, Crome Yellow. With the novels Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves and Point Counter Point, Huxley quickly established a reputation for bright, brilliant satires that ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. In later life, exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs dominated Huxley's writing, including his first-person account of experiencing mescaline in The Doors of Perception. Aldous Huxley died in 1963.