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After Many a Summer by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics
Jo Stoyle is afraid of death. But Stoyle is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless quest will enmesh everyone around him in a web of greed, seduction, murder and debasement. Written while he was living in Califo ...Show more
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGE When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis. He soon finds himself caught up in the hedonistic world of his f ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics
Ranked as one of the top dystopian novels of all time , the top 100 greatest novels of all time and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC , the Brave New World is often considered a masterpiece in its genre. The plot revolves around an attempt to classify population based o ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it rema ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics
A timeless classic which is often considered a masterpiece in its genre , the novel is written in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-lear ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A 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 gene ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics
Brave New Worldis a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely 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 t ...Show more
Brave New World: A Graphic Novel by Aldous Huxley, Fred Fordham
Category: Graphic Novels
Available in graphic novel form for the first time, "one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century" (Wall Street Journal) Aldous Huxley's classic novel of authoritarianism Brave New World, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham, the artist behind the graphic novel edition of To Kil ...Show more
Brave New World (Hardback) by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaini ...Show more
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in "Brave New World Revisited", Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argue ...Show more