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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

  • Bindwijze: Hardcover
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Literatuur & Romans
  • ISBN: 9780062696120
Inhoud
Taal:en
Bindwijze:Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:09 mei 2017
Aantal pagina's:272
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Aldous Huxley
Tweede Auteur:Linda Cookson
Co Auteur:Roy Blatchford
Hoofdredacteur:Prof. Harold Bloom
Hoofdredacteur:Prof. Harold Bloom
Vertaling
Eerste Vertaler:Michael York
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:152 mm
Product hoogte:25 mm
Product lengte:229 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:141 mm
Verpakking hoogte:26 mm
Verpakking lengte:215 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:656 g
eWaste:Nee
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:152 mm
Product hoogte:25 mm
Product lengte:229 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:141 mm
Verpakking hoogte:26 mm
Verpakking lengte:215 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:656 g
eWaste:Nee

Samenvatting

A gorgeous hardcover edition of Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork, "one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal), that must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world"

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.