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Brave New World with Fourteen Related Readings
Brave New World, Everbound. Unadapted, Unabridged from the original text and with seventeen related readings. Includes short stories and excerpts from Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Carl R. Rogers among others.
426 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2003
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Aldous Huxley
1,007 books14.4k followersAldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively.
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February 24, 2025
It was a weird book. It took some wild turns and overall it was pretty strange for the time period when it came out.
March 23, 2019
Well, I thought I had never read it and was wrong. This is a classic dystopian novel. Instead of continual war as in 1984, there is a continual drug induced stupor and peaceful. It has some clear messages against removing all hazards. Huxley says man is a pack animal and not an ant or a bee. This is true. Legalize plot. Less violence if everybody is high. Let's make the workers happy by stunting their intelligence. No more haphazard reproduction. Let us manufacture the humans we need. No marriage, no families. If it feels good, it is all right. Interesting re-read.
January 31, 2010
Wow, this is a great novel in the "WHOA the future's going to be super scary" manner of 1984. I'd recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet (I guess it's pretty standard in high school). A quick read, too.
#5 on the MLA list of the top 100 English Language Novels of the 20th Century (and I can see why -- really good!)
#5 on the MLA list of the top 100 English Language Novels of the 20th Century (and I can see why -- really good!)
November 23, 2011
I've always wanted to read this book, and I can't believe that I've waited this long. It was amazing. So well written and refreshing from the other books that I've been forcing myself to read. I definitely would suggest it to anyone who’s looking for a good read!
April 20, 2015
All I can think right now is: damn that was amazing
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