Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited Paperback - 2005
by Aldous Huxley
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- Title Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
- Author Aldous Huxley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 384
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0060776099I5N10
- ISBN 9780060776091
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From the rear cover
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.
Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.
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.
