ALDOUS HUXLEY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD

Published in 1932, Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley. The book presents a nightmarish vision of a future society, set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. Read here.

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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.