About this title: A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Date Published: 7/5/2005
ISBN-13:9780060776091ISBN:0060776099
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060776091ISBN:0060776099
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very good condition with clean pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 340 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: University Lib
Publisher: Harper torchbooks TB3501, NY
Date Published: 1932, 1958
Description: Gryphon Cover Art. Good Cond, PENCIL UNDERLINED, MARGINAL NOTATIONS. 5x8" Paper Covers 199+97pg Purple spine titles on white spine. Purple & blue on white covers. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 2005-07-01
ISBN-13:9780060776091ISBN:0060776099
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Edition: 1st thus
Binding: hardbound
Publisher: Heron Books, London
Date Published: no date late 1960's
Description: b&w drawings. Very Good. 8vo. no dustwrapper. 446pp. Heron Books edition of Brave New World, and Brave New World Revisited, with an introduction and illustrated appreciation by Malcolm Elwin, and original illustrations by Lisbeth Kneen; a volume in the Books That Have Changed Man's Thinking series put out by Heron Books; ornate leatherette boards, with designs and lettering in gilt to spine and front board, silk bookmark; this copy has the former owner's name to prelims, thin crack to ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 2004-06-01
ISBN-13:9780060535261ISBN:0060535261
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060535261ISBN:0060535261
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"This was an excellent read that demonstrates, even in this age, how advanced Aldous Huxley was for his time. The social and political presentations show the realistic side of human nature as well as the consequences. Even his critiques of his own work in "Revisited" were inspiring and he didn't hesitate to reveal some of the mistakes he made in his original writing - from his point of view, of course. A truely frightening reality of human nature."
"I really liked Huxley's creation of this world. He begins at the birthing process - and ends with death. It seems to be the opposite end of the distopia spectrum from 1984. Instead of 1984's negative reinforcement of conformity, we are presented with the idea of control through positive reinforcement.
The part of the savage was interesting, as the character was introduced mid-storyline, but was expected to carry forth the ending by himself. Obviously presenting a character unused to this society's way of life was an essential part of Huxley's explanation. He meant to show the faulty reasoning behind control through falsified contentment. While the reader understands that each caste-structure has been genetically and hypnopaedically manipulated to acquiesce unquestioningly, the savage does not. His meak cries for freedom fall on deaf ears, and his disavowal of soma is met with (extremely brief) shock and anger. While perhaps Huxley meant for the savage's childlike reverence to Shakespeare to be a ringing bell amidst white noise, it did not come across as such. The savage's base understanding of what freedom and life should be only rises him slightly above the Epsilon generation's reasoning, as he can't see beyond what he has known since childhood: pain and Shakespeare. He clings to this until the very last page, where he has killed himself. He claims the opposite of what everyone else has as his own: individuality and unhappiness, and clings to it unmovingly. So what, then, did he prove? Only that the end of this society will be the same end he met: a discombobulated and anti-climactic death, well after the climax and downward motion of the story.
That being said, I'm not sure if sending people to islands was indeed a real solution, or if the community just said that and quietly killed them, like Lois Lowry's "The Giver". It seems that providing supplies to an island of people not contributing to society would be against everything the community stood for, and death was programmed into peoples' psyches as so matter-of-fact that that would be the ultimate solution for individualist rebellion of any type.
Huxley made a society so "perfect" in it's stability and manipulation that it seems even he had a hard time portraying the consequence of discordance. Perhaps having a stronger character to carry the entire story (instead of several weak and confused characters contributing but refusing to claim the tale as their own) would have pushed Brave New World slightly farther in its message. Perhaps I'm just searching for a stronger message than Huxley was willing to give. Regardless, I enjoyed the idea, I just wish Huxley would have taken it further. Good start and idea, poor execution and development."
"One of the most thought-provoking novels I've ever read, Brave New World provides a shocking nightmare of what happens when society becomes too indulgent in order to better control people, organize them socioeconomically (and physio/psychologically). Brave New World Revisited is even more thought-provoking, though a bit dry at times. But realizing the changes the world had seen between 1931 when Brave New World was written and 1965 when it was "revisited", then again to 2009 when I experienced it was a mind-blowing experience. I now very much want to read 1984 for comparison."
"I liked this book too. Somehow, I think of Brave New World, 1984, and Beyond Freedom and Dignity as a sort of trilogy that speaks for the 70s. All three of these books were books I read in college. They were my "college" array of literature with more in between. So moved by sociological fiction, I penned my own novel, Demigods, as a "fourth" in the line of sociological plots.
Brave New World was my favorite. It is an art of sociology, really. The perfectly formed society of happily conditioned people seemed a solution to all of our world's woes. I'll never forget the creativity of the author's description of conditioning. It beat a Clockwork Orange by far; running on more comfortable positives than the reinforcement of eye drugs to induce the need to vomit. Brave New World was more of a peaceful pact with the inevitable surrender of psychological discoveries. In the beginning and quite a ways through, I felt at peace with this book. I didn't see the shock value that Orwell attacked in 1984."
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