Brave New World Revisited

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443434393

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When Aldous Huxley wrote his famous novel Brave New World, he did so with the sincere belief that the dystopian world he created was a true possibility given the direction of the social, political and economic world order. Written almost thirty years later, Brave New World Revisited is a re-evaluation of his predictions based on the changes he had witnessed in the meantime. In this twelve-part essay, Huxley argues that society is moving toward his dystopian vision even faster than he had originally assumed, and provides his own suggestions on how to bring an end to this decadent decline. Brave New World Revisited condemns symptoms of modern life such as overpopulation, propaganda and extreme government control while providing a staunch defence of individualism. Despite being published over fifty years ago, the problems identified in Brave New World Revisited are still startlingly relevant, lending a chilling creditability to Aldous Huxley’s unsettling predictions. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780795311697

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In this “brilliantly written” book, the author of Brave New World reflects on his dystopian classic—and its echoes in the real world decades later (Kirkus Reviews). Written almost thirty years after the publication of Aldous Huxley’s groundbreaking dystopian novel, Brave New World Revisited compares the “future” of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s. Touching on subjects as diverse as world population, drugs, subliminal suggestion, and totalitarianism, these timeless essays provide a fascinating look at ideas of early science fiction in the context of the real world. “It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time. . . . fascinating.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : David Watts
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781475974836

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Journey to a Brave New World by David Watts Pdf

Our Way of life and our very existence are under threat. Get educated and resist. In Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, published in 1932, we are provided with a view into a possible future that shows humanity under total control. Its a world in which babies are created in the laboratory to fit specific job functions and a small number of savages live in the restricted wild lands. Journey to a Brave New World uses examples of news reports and the real history not always the version taught in the classroom to show how we are being managed and manipulated to allow for a total tyrannical takeover and massive depopulation that could lead us to Huxleys vision. For over six years, author David Watts has undertaken deep research into the real history of the world and the ways in which it is being manipulated toward a future that only benefits an elite few. He provides many news reports, official documents and quotes from the so called elites to piece the puzzle together. He presents a cohesive exploration of what to expect in the future if we dont become involved in determining our own fate. Journey to a Brave New World seeks to help everyone to put the pieces together, deprogram, and understand both how we are being manipulated and how we can change direction now.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597802888

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Brave New Worlds by John Joseph Adams Pdf

From Huxley's Brave New World, to Orwell's 1984, to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian books have always been an integral part of both science fiction and literature, and have influenced the broader culture discussion in unique and permanent ways. Brave New Worlds brings together the best dystopian fiction of the last 30 years, demonstrating the diversity that flourishes in this compelling subgenre. This landmark tome contains stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Cory Doctorow, M. Rickert, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and many others.

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847653703

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Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama Pdf

Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA technology over the last few years are the stuff of science fiction. It is now not only possible to clone human beings it is happening. For the first time since the creation of the earth four billion years ago, or the emergence of mankind 10 million years ago, people will be able to choose their children's' sex, height, colour, personality traits and intelligence. It will even be possible to create 'superhumans' by mixing human genes with those of other animals for extra strength or longevity. But is this desirable? What are the moral and political consequences? Will it mean anything to talk about 'human nature' any more? Is this the end of human beings? Our Posthuman Future is a passionate analysis of the greatest political and moral problem ever to face the human race.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795311253

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Pdf

This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (The Wall Street Journal). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug called soma. And while sex is strongly encouraged, the old way of procreation is forbidden, eliminating even the pains of childbirth. But when a man and woman journey beyond these confines to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show. Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels. Influenced by the historic events of Huxley’s era yet as relevant today as ever, it is a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit. “Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” —Providence Journal-Bulletin “It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784876259

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost.

Author : Aldous Huxley,Fred Fordham
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780063055261

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Brave New World: A Graphic Novel by Aldous Huxley,Fred Fordham Pdf

Available in graphic novel form for the first time, “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (Wall Street Journal) Aldous Huxley’s classic novel of authoritarianism Brave New World, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham, the artist behind the graphic novel edition of To Kill A Mockingbird. Originally published in 1932, Brave New World is one of the most revered and profound works of twentieth century literature. Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley’s enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form. Fred Fordham’s singular artistic flair and attention to detail and color captures this thought-provoking novel as never before, and introduces it to a new generation, and countless modern readers, in a fresh and compelling way.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479457595

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Brief Candles. Four Stories. by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Brief Candles (1930), Aldous Huxley's fifth collection of short fiction, consists of the following four short stories: "Chawdron" "The Rest Cure" "The Claxtons" "After the Fireworks" Brief Candles takes its title from a line in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, from Macbeth's famous soliloquy: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551997568

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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley Pdf

Two of the most famous pieces of non-fiction by Aldous Huxley (best known for Brave New World), The Doors of Perception details his experiences on the mind-altering drug mescaline, while Heaven and Hell details the relationships between mysticism, art, and sense perception that these experiences helped Huxley to explore and develop. He analogizes the mental states achievable through the use of mind-altering substances to very forms of religious self-flagellation, and also theorizes that they might be used as a form of treatment for psychological ailments. The two works have been significant influences on thinkers in this field, as well as writers, theologians, and philosophers. Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 014303653X

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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Pdf

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015049678819

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Complete Essays: 1920-1925 by Aldous Huxley Pdf

These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the most productive period of Huxley's career. Volume I begins with his essays for Gilbert Murray's Athenaeum and his music essays for the New Westminster Gazette. Volume II continues through the 1920s and includes his controversial essays on India and the empire in "Jesting Pilate." The essays of both volumes range from nuanced assessments of art and architecture to political analyses, history, science, religion, and art, and a newly discovered series on music. Wide-ranging, allusive, and witty, they are informed by the probing skepticism of a highly educated and ironically incisive member of the English upper middle class. Huxley's fascination with the codes and conventions of European culture, his growing apprehensions about the menacing collapse of the European political order, and his awareness of the impact of science and technology on the post-Versailles world of England, France, Germany, and the United States form the basis for his critique. His subjects overlap with the satirical novels he wrote during the period between the wars, culminating in Point Counter Point and Brave New World. At their best, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417761032

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Pdf

For use in schools and libraries only. Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.

Author : Alduos Huxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9356612056

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