Author

Contributions

  • Christopher Hitchens (Foreword) - Contributor

Publication

2005-07-05 - Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780060776091
  • Open LibraryOL7281510M

Classifications

  • LCCPR6015.U9 B65 2005

Description

In *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, *Brave New World* is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.

First Sentence

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.

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  • Brave New World and Brave New World RevisitedHarper Perennial Modern Classics2005-07-05
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