Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: Tommy Anderson, Skye Stafford

Unabridged: 16 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/03/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

No library's complete without the classics! This new audio collects the legendary masterpiece of Aldous Huxley.More than ever, everybody interested in upholding the human spirit has to listen to and comprehend Aldous Huxley's timeless outstanding work."A masterpiece... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." Wall Street JournalA profoundly significant work of world literature, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley presents a disturbing picture of an unequal, technologically advanced future in which people are drugged, socially indoctrinated, and genetically bred to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the expense of our freedom, our humanity, and possibly even our souls. Huxley, described by The New Yorker as "a genius [who] spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine," was a man of unparalleled ability who was also a keen observer of human nature and society, an artist, and a spiritual quest.Millions of readers have been captivated and horrified by this masterpiece, Brave New World, which is still very relevant today as a thought-provoking, gratifying piece of writing as well as a warning to be heeded as we go into the future. Written in the midst of the fascist movement in the 1930s, Brave New World also addresses the mass-entertainment industry, technology, drugs and medicine, persuasive techniques, and the covert power of the elite.For the first time, this audio book features his "effortlessly crafted" piece titled "Brave New World Revisited," where Huxley has discussed his dystopian masterpiece "Brave New World" and its impacts in the real world decades later."Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." — Tribune of Chicago

About Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Perennial Philosophy, and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on February 17, 2016

Warning! The following review contains humor. If you read it and actually think that I'm being critical of Huxley, try reading it again. (Here's a hint. Look for the irony of the italicized parts when compared to the previous statements.) If you post a comment that asserts that I'm wrong/ stupid/ cr......more

Goodreads review by Johannes on May 24, 2008

This book presents a futuristic dystopia of an unusual kind. Unlike in Orwell's 1984, Huxley's dystopia is one in which everyone is happy. However, they are happy in only the most trivial sense: they lead lives of simple pleasures, but lives without science, art, philosophy or religion. In short, li......more

Goodreads review by Vit on April 23, 2024

Ford and Freud… Machinery and sexuality… These cosmic signs rule the world… Consumers and conformists constitute an ideal society… Like aphides and ants, the leaf-green Gamma girls, the black Semi-Morons swarmed round the entrances, or stood in queues to take their places in the monorail tram-cars. M......more

Goodreads review by Yun on March 15, 2022

I first read Brave New World many years (decades) ago in high school, and I remember thinking it was really interesting at the time. Well, I must have been a doofus back then because this reread just didn't live up to expectations. To be honest, my impression now is that it's all a bit of a mess. Fir......more