Brave New World Paperback - 1970
by Aldous Huxley
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- Title Brave New World
- Author Aldous Huxley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later printing
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 177
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1970
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0060830956I5N10
- ISBN 9780060830953 / 0060830956
- Reading level 870
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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About this book
Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of futurism. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962), both summarized below. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Summary
'One of the most important books to have been published since the war' Daily TelegraphWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
First line
A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories.
First Edition Identification
The first edition was published in London in 1932 by Chatto & Windus in blue cloth with the top edge stained blue and an iconic blue and white illustrated jacket. The first US edition was published in the same year by Doubleday Doran and Co in maroon cloth with gilt lettering and a red, gold and green jacket. The US edition is reportedly less common than the UK edition.
