Brave new world / by Aldous Huxley with an introduction by John Sutherland.

9780375712364 hardcover
0375712364 hardcover

New York : Everyman's Library : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

©1932

English

xli. 232 pages ; 22 cm

PR6015.U9 B65 2013

823/.912

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.

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; no. 359.

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