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Brave new world : and, Brave new world revisited
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Brave new world: 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 ...
Brave new world: 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.
Brave new world revisited: The author examines the prophetic fantasy of his novel Brave new world and compares his predictions for the future with our actual world.
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- Creator
- Aldous Huxley ; foreword by Christopher Hitchens
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- Language
- English
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- First Harper Perennial modern classics edition
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2005
- ©2004
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- xxi, 340, 16 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060776091, 0060776099, 0060535261
- OCLC
- ocm61141178
- Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.
- "A hardcover edition of Brave new world was published in 1932 by Harper & Brothers, Publishers"--Title page verso.
- "Most of the material in Brave new world revisited was published by Newsday under the Tyranny over the mind. A hardcover edition of Brave new world revisited was published in 1958 by Harper & Row, Publishers"--Title page verso.
- "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2004 bt HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.
- Foreword / Christopher Hitchens -- Brave new world -- Foreword / Aldous Huxley -- Brave new world revisited -- Foreword / Aldous Huxley -- I. Over-population -- II. Quantity, quality, morality -- III. Over-organization -- IV. Propaganda in a democratic society -- V. Propaganda under a dictatorship -- VI. The arts of selling -- VII. Brainwashing -- VIII. Chemical persuasion -- IX. Subconscious persuasion -- X. Hypnopaedia -- XI. Education for freedom -- XII. What can be done?