Brave new world
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Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and recreational sex ensure that everyone is a happy, unquestioning consumer; messy emotions have been anesthetized and private attachments are considered obscene. Only Bernard Marx is discontented, developing an unnatural desire for solitude and a distaste for compulsory promiscuity. When he brings back a young man from one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old unenlightened ways still continue, he unleashes a dramatic clash of cultures that will force him to consider whether freedom, dignity, and individuality are worth suffering for.
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Huxley, A. (19322013). Brave new world. New York, Everyman's Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. 19322013. Brave New World. New York, Everyman's Library.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963, Brave New World. New York, Everyman's Library, 19322013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York, Everyman's Library, 19322013.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Brave new world / |c by Aldous Huxley with an introduction by John Sutherland. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Everyman's Library : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c ©1932, 2013. | |
| 300 | |a xli. 232 pages ; |c 22 cm. | ||
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| 500 | |a "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 520 | |a Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and recreational sex ensure that everyone is a happy, unquestioning consumer; messy emotions have been anesthetized and private attachments are considered obscene. Only Bernard Marx is discontented, developing an unnatural desire for solitude and a distaste for compulsory promiscuity. When he brings back a young man from one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old unenlightened ways still continue, he unleashes a dramatic clash of cultures that will force him to consider whether freedom, dignity, and individuality are worth suffering for. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Genetic engineering |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Totalitarianism |v Fiction. | |
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