Brave New World

An edition of ISBN-10: 0586044345; ISBN-13: 9780586044346
Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the ideal society. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons, designed to perform menial tasks, man is bred and educated to be blissfully content with his pre-destined role.

But, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard Marx is unhappy. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling only distaste for the endless pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has 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…

A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present–considered to be Aldous Huxley’ s most enduring masterpiece. “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.”–“Saturday Review of Literature” “A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay.”–“Forum” “It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art…This is surely Huxley’ s best book.”–Martin Green