Brave new world ; and, Brave new world revisited
by Aldous Huxley
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In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, Brave New World is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
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Brave New World Brave New World Revisited
2007, Random House of Canada
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
July 5, 2005, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
in English
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Brave new world: and, Brave new world revisited
2004, HarperCollins
in English
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Brave new world ; and, Brave new world revisited
1984, Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press
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0701127694 9780701127695
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Brave new world and Brave new world revisited (Books that have changed man's thinking)
1969, Distributed by Heron Books
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BRAVE NEW WORLD AND BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED - HARPER COLOPHON #CN101
1965-01-01, Harper colophon
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