@article{693714,
      recid = {693714},
      author = {Huxley, Aldous,},
      title = {Brave new world /},
      pages = {xli. 232 pages ;},
      note = {"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.},
      abstract = {Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a  brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and  of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless  conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World  Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its  members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral  conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have  been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs  and recreational sex ensure that everyone is a happy,  unquestioning consumer; messy emotions have been  anesthetized and private attachments are considered  obscene. Only Bernard Marx is discontented, developing an  unnatural desire for solitude and a distaste for compulsory  promiscuity. When he brings back a young man from one of  the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old  unenlightened ways still continue, he unleashes a dramatic  clash of cultures that will force him to consider whether  freedom, dignity, and individuality are worth suffering  for.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/693714},
}