"Brave New World" 1946 HUXLEY, Aldous
$150
HUXLEY, Aldous
[311] pp.
The Modern Library
1946
7 1/4" x 5"
Jacket design by Haff
VG/ VG
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set 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-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by the story's protagonist.