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"Brave New World" 1946 HUXLEY, Aldous

HUXLEY, Aldous

[311] pp.

The Modern Library

1946

7 1/4" x 5"

Jacket design by Haff

VG/ VG

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.


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