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'Just to give you a general idea,' he would explain to them. for Central London always made a point of personallyconducting his new students round the various departments. Each of them carried anotebook, in which, whenever the great man spoke, he desperatelyscribbled. A troop ofnewly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously,rather abjectly, at the Director's heels. 'And this,' said the Director opening the door, 'is the FertilizingRoom.'īent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers wereplunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning enteredthe room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, so-liloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did itborrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polishedtubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession downthe work tables. The overalls of the workers were white, their handsgloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropicalheat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows,hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape ofacademic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel andbleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards thenorth. Over the main entrancethe words, Central London Hatchery and ConditioningCentre, and, in a shield, the World State's motto,Community, Identity, Stability. ISBN: 0060850523Ī squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.

Copyright ©2006 Aldous Huxley All right reserved. “It’s time for everyone to read or reread Brave New World.” - Raleigh News & Observer From the Back Coverīrave New World By Aldous Huxley HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. “A sometimes appallingly accurate view of today’s world.” - St. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” - New York Times Book Review

“Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931. “Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English.” - Chicago Tribune a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.” - The New Yorker That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” - Providence Journal-Bulletin “One of the 20th century’s greatest writers.” - Washington Post “As sparkling, as provocative, as brilliant.as the day it was published.” - Martin Green One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century.” - Wall Street Journal 'Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English.' -C hicago Tribune Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. “A genius who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” ( The New Yorker ), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization.

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One of the most prophetic dystopian works.' - Wall Street JournalĪldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit

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