Wednesday, 26 July 2017

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Risultati immagini per brave new world 

Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to profoundly change society.
Here you can find a detailed analysis of the novel and here you can discover some interesting facts about its author.
The title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.




Here you can read Aldous Huxley's novel online.


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