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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it rema ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. - "After Ford" - in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and operant conditioning that combine to profoun ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Science Fiction
A timeless classic which is often considered a masterpiece in its genre , the novel is written in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-lear ...Show more
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse ...Show more
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Science | Series: P.S.
"Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931. 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." -- New York Times Book Review When Aldous ...Show more
Brave New World: Special 3D Edition by Aldous Huxley
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As seen on tv and at the feelies. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. ...Show more
Brave New World: a Graphic Novel by Aldous Huxley; Fred Fordham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Available for the first time as a graphic novel, "one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century" (Wall Street Journal), Aldous Huxley's revered classic, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham, the artist behind the graphic novel adaptation of To Kill A MockingbirdIn Aldous Huxley' ...Show more
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Fiction
A comical cast of outlandish characters has gathered in the small English town of Crome for a social outing at the estate of Henry Wimbush. Among the odd, learned guests are a highly prolific writer; an idealist with plans for a "Rational State"; and a sensitive poet haplessly in love with Wimbush's nie ...Show more
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's highly acclaimed Eyeless in Gaza is his most personal novel. Huxley's bold, nontraditional narrative tells the loosely autobiographical story of Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate who comes of age in ...Show more
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cow ...Show more
Island by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Fiction
For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth.When cynical journalist. Will Famaby, arrive ...Show more