Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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Author: Aldous Huxley
Foreword: Christopher Hitchens
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-01
ISBN: 0060776099
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Summary: 1 Stars

This is one of those books that people seem to like on the basis that the author is some kind of prophet. The novel Brave New World I regard as virtually unreadable. The characters have names like Lenina, Marx and Benito. It's the sort of novel a teenager might write. Just ridiculous, the "savage" finds a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare lying on the floor and reads Romeo and Juliet. Of course, Shakespeare is boring at the best of times, so that's an unrealistic plot twist. I can't be bothered to spend any more time on it, so moving on to Brave New World Revisited, this is really bland and simplistic too. There's nothing about the malign effect of organised religion on the world, nothing on the effect of covert psychological warfare by intelligence agencies on the population, nothing on the corrosive influence of freemasonry on society. In the introduction it says that Huxley wrote Brave New World as an act of "having fun pulling the leg of H.G. Wells". Well, Wells did in fact out-do Huxley in his spectacularly bleak Outlook for Homo Sapiens, which although I didn't altogether agree with, I regard as being far superior to this tedious book. In addition, Mass Control by Jim Keith delivers a realistically bleak Brave New World type depiction of modern life.

Summary of Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.

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