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Brave New World

288 pages, 2006

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Now more than ever, Aldous Huxley’s profound and prophetic masterpiece must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit. One of the most masterful dystopian works of all time—and certainly the wittiest—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 spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine, 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.

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