Aldous Huxley
Huxley, 'Brave New World' and 'Brave New World Revisited
ol:OL16479689M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley
823.912
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/41918-L.jpg
London, United Kingdom, September 2, 2004
OL16479689M OL64448W
en
en
Chatto and Windus
In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel.  Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays.  Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy seemed to be turning into reality, frighteningly and much more quickly than he had ever dreamed.That he had been so prophetic in 1931 about the dystopian future gave Huxley no comfort.  He was a far more serious man in 1958 -- at the age of 64 -- and the world was a very different place, transformed by the catastrophe of World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and the grip of the Cold War.  Looking behind the Iron Curtain, where people were not free but dominated by totalitarian power, Huxley could only bow to the grim prophecy of his friend (and, briefly, his student at Eton) George Orwell in the novel 1984.  In the free world, however, the situation seemed even more to be one for despair.  For it seemed to Huxley that people were well on their way to giving up their freedom and the sanctity of their individualism, in exchange for the illusions of comfort and sensory pleasure -- just as they had in Brave New World.Huxley heard, in 1958, a world full of the noise of what he called singing commercials, flooding the mass media, much like the hypnopaedia that shaped conscious thought in the world of the novel.  He saw people everywhere in greater numbers taking tranquilizer drugs, to surrender to the unacceptable aspects of modern life -- not unlike the drug called soma that everyone takes in the novel.  The power of propaganda, he believed, had been validated by the rise of Hitler, and the postwar world was using it effectively to manipulate the masses.  Overpopulation was already a critical issue in 1958, and Huxley saw the emergence of an overpopulated world in which the chaos was, more and more, being countered by centralized control -- closer, it seemed, to the future of Brave New World, where the ultimate controlling capitalist of Huxley's early years, Henry Ford, had become the equivalent of God.In the end, Brave New World Revisited despairs of what has come to pass, primarily modern humankind's willingness to surrender freedom for pleasure.  Huxley quotes from the episode of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov -- 'For nothing,' the Inquisitor insists, 'has ever been more insupportable for a man or a human society than freedom.' Huxley worried that the cry of "Give me liberty or give me death" could easily be replaced by "Give me television and hamburgers, but don't bother me with the responsibilities of liberty." He saw hope in the form of education, even the most pious, orthodox and inefficient kind of education -- education that can teach people to see beyond the easy slogans, efficient ends and anesthetic influences of propaganda.  Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for every long, Huxley concluded.  It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.
Brave new world revisited.
2004
ol:OL16479689M
aarecords_metadata
OL16479689M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
en
ol
Brave new world revisited.
Brave new world revisited. 
Aldous Huxley
London, United Kingdom, September 2, 2004
Chatto and Windus

ol:OL16479689M
ol: OL16479689M
OL16479689M ol:OL16479689M
OL64448W ol:OL64448W
823.912 ddc:823.912
2004
ol:OL32705922M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley
Source title: Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Chinese Edition)
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11330493-L.jpg
Jun 01, 2017
7532774686
9787532774685
OL64440W OL32705922M
en
Shanghai Translation Publishing House
In *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, *Brave New World* is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
2017
ol:OL32705922M
aarecords_metadata
OL32705922M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9787532774685
en
ol
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
Jun 01, 2017
Shanghai Translation Publishing House

ol:OL32705922M
ol: OL32705922M
OL64440W ol:OL64440W
OL32705922M ol:OL32705922M
7532774686 isbn10:7532774686
9787532774685 isbn13:9787532774685
2017
ol:OL9863728M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/35568-L.jpg
May 1992
3512787
1559271744
9781559271745
OL64440W OL9863728M
en
en
Audio Renaissance
In *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, *Brave New World* is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
1992
ol:OL9863728M
aarecords_metadata
OL9863728M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9781559271745
en
ol
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
May 1992
Audio Renaissance

ol:OL9863728M
ol: OL9863728M
OL64440W ol:OL64440W
OL9863728M ol:OL9863728M
1559271744 isbn10:1559271744
9781559271745 isbn13:9781559271745
3512787 goodreads:3512787
1992
ol:OL5463339M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley
823/.912
HM216 HM216 .H8 1972
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/41918-L.jpg
The Collected works of Aldous Huxley, London, England, September 2, 2004
135468
070110791X
9780701107918
73165996
8411
OL5463339M OL64448W
en
en
Chatto and Windus
In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel.  Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays.  Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy seemed to be turning into reality, frighteningly and much more quickly than he had ever dreamed.That he had been so prophetic in 1931 about the dystopian future gave Huxley no comfort.  He was a far more serious man in 1958 -- at the age of 64 -- and the world was a very different place, transformed by the catastrophe of World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and the grip of the Cold War.  Looking behind the Iron Curtain, where people were not free but dominated by totalitarian power, Huxley could only bow to the grim prophecy of his friend (and, briefly, his student at Eton) George Orwell in the novel 1984.  In the free world, however, the situation seemed even more to be one for despair.  For it seemed to Huxley that people were well on their way to giving up their freedom and the sanctity of their individualism, in exchange for the illusions of comfort and sensory pleasure -- just as they had in Brave New World.Huxley heard, in 1958, a world full of the noise of what he called singing commercials, flooding the mass media, much like the hypnopaedia that shaped conscious thought in the world of the novel.  He saw people everywhere in greater numbers taking tranquilizer drugs, to surrender to the unacceptable aspects of modern life -- not unlike the drug called soma that everyone takes in the novel.  The power of propaganda, he believed, had been validated by the rise of Hitler, and the postwar world was using it effectively to manipulate the masses.  Overpopulation was already a critical issue in 1958, and Huxley saw the emergence of an overpopulated world in which the chaos was, more and more, being countered by centralized control -- closer, it seemed, to the future of Brave New World, where the ultimate controlling capitalist of Huxley's early years, Henry Ford, had become the equivalent of God.In the end, Brave New World Revisited despairs of what has come to pass, primarily modern humankind's willingness to surrender freedom for pleasure.  Huxley quotes from the episode of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov -- 'For nothing,' the Inquisitor insists, 'has ever been more insupportable for a man or a human society than freedom.' Huxley worried that the cry of "Give me liberty or give me death" could easily be replaced by "Give me television and hamburgers, but don't bother me with the responsibilities of liberty." He saw hope in the form of education, even the most pious, orthodox and inefficient kind of education -- education that can teach people to see beyond the easy slogans, efficient ends and anesthetic influences of propaganda.  Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for every long, Huxley concluded.  It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.
Brave new world revisited.
2004
ol:OL5463339M
aarecords_metadata
OL5463339M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9780701107918
en
ol
Brave new world revisited.
Brave new world revisited. 
Aldous Huxley
The Collected works of Aldous Huxley, London, England, September 2, 2004
Chatto and Windus

ol:OL5463339M
ol: OL5463339M
OL5463339M ol:OL5463339M
OL64448W ol:OL64448W
070110791X isbn10:070110791X
9780701107918 isbn13:9780701107918
73165996 lccn:73165996
8411 librarything:8411
135468 goodreads:135468
HM216 lcc:HM216
HM216 .H8 1972 lcc:HM216 .H8 1972
823/.912 ddc:823/.912
2004
ol:OL21195432M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14267403-L.jpg
Books That Changed Man's Thinking Series, London, England, 1978
0862251184
9780862251185
1977
OL64440W OL21195432M
en
en
Heron Books, Easton Press
In *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, *Brave New World* is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
Brave new world and Brave new world revisited
1978
ol:OL21195432M
aarecords_metadata
OL21195432M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9780862251185
en
ol
Brave new world and Brave new world revisited
Aldous Huxley
Books That Changed Man's Thinking Series, London, England, 1978
Heron Books, Easton Press

ol:OL21195432M
ol: OL21195432M
OL64440W ol:OL64440W
OL21195432M ol:OL21195432M
0862251184 isbn10:0862251184
9780862251185 isbn13:9780862251185
1977 librarything:1977
1978
ol:OL9236217M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/35568-L.jpg
July 5, 2005
5479
0060776099
9780060776091
66581
61141178
OL64440W OL9236217M
en
en
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
In *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, *Brave New World* is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
2005
ol:OL9236217M
aarecords_metadata
OL9236217M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9780060776091
en
ol
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
July 5, 2005
Harper Perennial Modern Classics

ol:OL9236217M
ol: OL9236217M
OL64440W ol:OL64440W
OL9236217M ol:OL9236217M
0060776099 isbn10:0060776099
9780060776091 isbn13:9780060776091
61141178 oclc:61141178
66581 librarything:66581
5479 goodreads:5479
2005
ol:OL7281510M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley
PR6015.U9 B65 2005
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/35569-L.jpg
July 5, 2005
5479
0060776099
9780060776091
66581
bravenewworldand0000huxl_j4b5
61141178
OL7281510M OL64440W
en
en
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
In *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, *Brave New World* is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
2005
ol:OL7281510M
aarecords_metadata
OL7281510M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9780060776091
en
ol
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
July 5, 2005
Harper Perennial Modern Classics

ol:OL7281510M
ol: OL7281510M
OL7281510M ol:OL7281510M
OL64440W ol:OL64440W
0060776099 isbn10:0060776099
9780060776091 isbn13:9780060776091
61141178 oclc:61141178
bravenewworldand0000huxl_j4b5 ocaid:bravenewworldand0000huxl_j4b5
5479 goodreads:5479
66581 librarything:66581
PR6015.U9 B65 2005 lcc:PR6015.U9 B65 2005
2005
ol:OL22118450M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley; with a foreword by the author; introduction by Martin Green
PR6019.O9
"Perennial library".

6
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/35568-L.jpg
1st Harper Colophon ed., New York, 1965
673651
0060901012
9780060901011
66581
48099604
OL64440W OL22118450M
en
en
HarperPerennial
In *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, *Brave New World* is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
Brave new world, and Brave new world revisited
1965
ol:OL22118450M
aarecords_metadata
OL22118450M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9780060901011
en
ol
Brave new world, and Brave new world revisited
Aldous Huxley; with a foreword by the author; introduction by Martin Green
1st Harper Colophon ed., New York, 1965
1st Harper Colophon ed. , New York, 1965
HarperPerennial

ol:OL22118450M
ol: OL22118450M
OL64440W ol:OL64440W
OL22118450M ol:OL22118450M
0060901012 isbn10:0060901012
9780060901011 isbn13:9780060901011
48099604 oclc:48099604
673651 goodreads:673651
66581 librarything:66581
PR6019.O9 lcc:PR6019.O9
1965
ol:OL2905400M
aarecords_metadata
by Aldous Huxley; with an introduction by Sybille Bedford
823/.912
PR6015.U9 PR6015.U9 B65 1984
book_unknown
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/35568-L.jpg
A Chatto twin, London, England, 1984
3471737
0701127694
9780701127695
84134715
1977
OL2905400M OL64440W
en
en
Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press
In *Brave New World*, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, *Brave New World* is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
Brave new world ; and, Brave new world revisited
1984
ol:OL2905400M
aarecords_metadata
OL2905400M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
9780701127695
en
ol
Brave new world ; and, Brave new world revisited
by Aldous Huxley; with an introduction by Sybille Bedford
A Chatto twin, London, England, 1984
Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press

ol:OL2905400M
ol: OL2905400M
OL2905400M ol:OL2905400M
OL64440W ol:OL64440W
0701127694 isbn10:0701127694
9780701127695 isbn13:9780701127695
84134715 lccn:84134715
3471737 goodreads:3471737
1977 librarything:1977
PR6015.U9 lcc:PR6015.U9
PR6015.U9 B65 1984 lcc:PR6015.U9 B65 1984
823/.912 ddc:823/.912
1984
ol:OL48595364M
aarecords_metadata
Aldous Huxley
book_unknown
1965-01-01
B000GQXYQA
BWB16697642
OL48595364M OL36000319W
Harper colophon
BRAVE NEW WORLD AND BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED - HARPER COLOPHON #CN101
1965
ol:OL48595364M
aarecords_metadata
OL48595364M
external_download meta_explore
book_unknown
ol
BRAVE NEW WORLD AND BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED - HARPER COLOPHON #CN101
Aldous Huxley
1965-01-01
Harper colophon

ol:OL48595364M
ol: OL48595364M
OL48595364M ol:OL48595364M
OL36000319W ol:OL36000319W
B000GQXYQA asin:B000GQXYQA
BWB16697642 better_world_books:BWB16697642
1965