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Brave new world / Aldous Huxley ; with introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Vintage classicsPublisher: London : Vintage Books, 2014Publisher: ©1932.Description: l, 229 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781784870140
  • 1784870145
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Scope and content: Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
List(s) this item appears in: Dystopian
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Fiction Fiction Dee Why Library F HUXL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Issued 01/05/2024 R88156FSLGS

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

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