Résumé
Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. Read the dystopian classic that inspired the Sky TV series.EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSEWelcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost.'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale 'A grave warning... Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Quatrième de couverture
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.Biographie de l'auteurAldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel,Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed byAntic Hay (1923),Those Barren Leaves (1925) andPoint Counter Point (1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found inAlong the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous workBrave New World (published in 1932, this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novelEyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such asMusic at Night (1931) andEnds and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West br
À propos de l'auteur
Huxley, Aldous
Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel,Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed byAntic Hay (1923),Those Barren Leaves (1925) andPoint Counter Point (1928) – bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found inAlong the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous workBrave New World (published in 1932, this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novelEyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such asMusic at Night (1931) andEnds and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West br
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- Titre : Brave New World
- Auteur : Huxley, Aldous
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 288
- Genre : Classic Fiction (Pre C 1945)
- Date de publication : 06-12-2007
- Édition : Vintage Classics
- Poids : 0.1849999689675652 kg
- Dimensions : 12.8999742 x 1.6999966000000002 x 19.7999604 cm
- ISBN-10 : 0099518473
- ISBN-13 : 9780099518471
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