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Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit.
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching work of social commentary and a 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.
This masterpiece of dystopian fiction, Brave New World, 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 a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, this science fiction classic 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.
Have you read many of the books mentioned in the novel? Did you find titles you added to your “to be read” list?
...The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Lord of the Flies by Williams Golding Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Charlotte's Web by E B White Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie Anxious People by Fredrik Backman The Ro...
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The Forgotten Book Club Reading list
...Plath Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes Lord of the Flies by Williams Golding Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Charlotte's Web by E B White The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Demon Copper...
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"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." ―Chicago Tribune
"One of the 20th century's greatest writers." ―Washington Post
"A genius ... a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine." ―The New Yorker
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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.
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