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Brave New World / Aldous Huxley.

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 (author.).

Summary:

[Aldous 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. "A genius [who] 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. 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. 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.].

Record details

ISBN: 9780062696120
ISBN: 0062696122
Physical Description: 259 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: Harper hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2017.
Copyright: ©1932

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published 2006"--Title page verso.
Target Audience Note:	870L Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.5 11 8653. Reading Counts RC High School 9 13 Quiz: 01535 Guided reading level: NR.