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Brave New World
by Huxley, Aldous
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- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. The book has clearly been protected by it's jacket from day one with the spine bright and boards clean. Just trivial foxing to the closed page block. Dust jacket also Fine with only a slight toning to the spine panel, otherwise bright and very fresh. A few spots of foxing to the jacket as well, mostly visible from the verso.
A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel, Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia, as writers such as H.G. Wells had done, Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. A "nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science" (DNB). Fine in Fine dust jacket.
A defining moment in the genre of the dystopian novel, Brave New World considers the dangers that new technologies and mass modernization pose to the very core of humanness. Rather than depicting these developments as gateways to utopia, as writers such as H.G. Wells had done, Huxley foreshadowed how radically technology and psychological conditioning could limit individual rights ranging from sexuality and reproduction to creativity to love. A "nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science" (DNB). Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of futurism. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962), both summarized below. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
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- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6154
- Title
- Brave New World
- Author
- Huxley, Aldous
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
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