Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning as we head into tomorrow and a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. 'A genius who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine' ( 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.

Now more than ever, 'one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century' ( Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our brave new world.Īldous 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 whose motto is 'Community, Identity, Stability'-all at the cost of our freedom, humanity, and perhaps our souls. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.įollowing Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future-of a world utterly transformed. About the Book 'First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published 2006'-Title page verso.

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