![]() Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.īrave New World Revisited (1958) 132 pages. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. ![]() Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. ![]()
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