Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's inconic dystopian classic, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari

'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood

'If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice' Yuval Noah Harari

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.

Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with 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.

This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance - no matter the cost.

'Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer

'Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression' The Times

Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful

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 by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point 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 in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932, this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends 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 braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescaline experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954). Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781784879686
ISBN 10	1784879681
Title	Brave New World
Author	Aldous Huxley
Series	Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2024-04-04
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.