Bibliograph

Brave new world, and, Brave new world revisited, Aldous Huxley ; foreword by Christopher Hitchens

Type

Label

Brave new world, and, Brave new world revisited, Aldous Huxley ; foreword by Christopher Hitchens

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Brave new world

Oclc number

61141178

Responsibility statement

Aldous Huxley ; foreword by Christopher Hitchens

Series statement

Harper Perennial modern classics

Sub title

and, Brave new world revisited

Summary

Brave new world: 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 freeBrave new world revisited: The author examines the prophetic fantasy of his novel Brave new world and compares his predictions for the future with our actual world

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Christopher Hitchens -- Brave new world -- Foreword / Aldous Huxley -- Brave new world revisited -- Foreword / Aldous Huxley -- I. Over-population -- II. Quantity, quality, morality -- III. Over-organization -- IV. Propaganda in a democratic society -- V. Propaganda under a dictatorship -- VI. The arts of selling -- VII. Brainwashing -- VIII. Chemical persuasion -- IX. Subconscious persuasion -- X. Hypnopaedia -- XI. Education for freedom -- XII. What can be done?

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Brave new world revisited

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