Brave new world
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyte...
| Main Author: | Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. |
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| Other Authors: | York, Michael, 1942- |
| Format: | Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ashland :
Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC,
2008.
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here. |
| Summary: |
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment. |
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| Item Description: |
Unabridged. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (7 audio files) : digital |
| Playing Time: |
08::0:0: |
| Format: |
Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 225456 KB). |
| Audience: |
Text Difficulty 8 - Text Difficulty 12 UG/Upper grades (9th-12) 870 7.5 |
| ISBN: |
9780792753520 |
| Author Notes: |
While at Oxford, he published two volumes of poetry. Crome Yellow, his first novel, was published in 1927 followed by Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, and Point Counter Point. His most famous novel, Brave New World, published in 1932, is a science fiction classic about a futuristic society controlled by technology. In all, Huxley produced 47 works during his long career, In 1947, Huxley moved with his family to southern California. During the 1950s, he experimented with mescaline and LSD. Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, both works of nonfiction, were based on his experiences while taking mescaline under supervision. In 1959, Aldous Huxley received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on November 22, 1963. (Bowker Author Biography) |