Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical …
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Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by the story's protagonist. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart. This novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at number 5 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum, writing for The Observer, included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC. Brave New World has frequently been banned and challenged since its original publication. It has landed on the American Library Association list of top 100 banned and challenged books of the decade since the association began the list in 1990.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 1977
- BNF ID:
- 119472943
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Brave New World
Paperback, 229 pages
English language
Published Dec. 6, 2007 by Vintage.
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- 978-0-09-951847-1Copied ISBN!
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- 3180338
Brave New World
256 pages
English language
Published Jan. 19, 2004
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- 978-0-09-947746-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 855038
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
340 pages
English language
Published July 5, 2005
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-077609-1Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 5479
Un mundo feliz.
256 pages
Spanish language
Published March 17, 2003
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9759-425-7Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 53683
Le meilleur des mondes
284 pages
French language
Published March 17, 1998
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-02310-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 3172440
Le meilleur des mondes
320 pages
French language
Published Aug. 17, 2017
- ISBN:
- 978-2-266-28303-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 38096235
Fagre Nye Verden
212 pages
Danish language
Published March 17, 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-87-7070-141-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 25789379
Un mundo feliz
200 pages
Spanish language
Published March 17, 1983
- ISBN:
- 978-84-01-42113-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 5190751
Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
English language
Published March 17, 2003
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- 978-0-87891-751-8Copied ISBN!
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