Brave New World Revisited (P.S.)

Paperback, 123 pages

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

ISBN:
978-0-06-089852-6
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OCLC Number:
71267323

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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 …

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Subjects

  • Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
  • Fiction
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Literature: Classics
  • Classics
  • Literary
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Brainwashing
  • Culture
  • Propaganda