Brave New World

Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley´s enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit. "A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works." --Wall Street Journal. The beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Brave New World also includes Huxley´s essay, "Brave New World Revisited" and features a foreword by Christopher Hitchens. Aldous Huxley´s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. "A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine" (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history´s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.