Synopsis A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-05-01 | | Narrated by: | Michael York | | Edition Description: | Unabridged |
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 2.0 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Publisher's Note Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.
Industry Reviews "He has satirized the imminent spiritual trustification of mankind, and has made rowdy and impertinent sport of the World State whose motto shall be Community, Identity, Stability....So here we have [Mr. Huxley], as entertainingly atrabilious as ever he was...mocking the Fords, the Hitlers, the Mussolinis..." New York Times Book Review - John Chamberlain (02/07/1996)
"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers--rather than his cleverness and his wit, which one admires and forgets." Saturday Review
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