Brave New World & Brave New World, Revisited

Brave New World & Brave New World, Revisited by Aldous Huxley. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780060187224.

One of the twentieth centurys most profound and terrifying evocations of the future, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant, witty, and satiric novel of natural man in an unnatural world, of a civilization in which contemporary concepts of freedom and morality have become obsolete. Set in the year 632 After Ford, Huxleys world is one where human beings are scientifically mass-produced, classified (as Alphas, Betas, Gammas), and "decanted" in laboratory factories. Father and Mother are forbidden words; pleasure comes in euphoria-producing tablets; efficiency is the rule. With no place for emotions, God, or art, it is a horrifying, but often humorous, glimpse into a future perhaps not far from fact. In BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED, Huxleys equally famous essay, the author links the realities of the modern world to his fictional vision--demonstrating with unflinching logic the closeness of reality to his automated nightmare. Scrutinizing numerous methods for curtailing individual freedoms and the sometimes irresistible pressures to adopt them, the book is a fervent plea for humankind to educate itself for liberty before it is too late. Both written with Huxleys customary artistic skill and intellectual vigor, BRAVE NEW WORLD and BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED provide incisive and challenging views of the modern world that are still relevant today.