'One of the most important books to have been published since the war' Daily Telegraph 20031017
Aldous Huxley was born on 26th July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early twenties, but it was his first novel, 'Crome Yellow' (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by 'Antic Hay' (1923), 'Those Barren Leaves' (1925) and 'Point Counter Point' (1928) - bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in 'Along The Road' (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work 'Brave New World' (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel 'Eyeless in Gaza' (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as 'Music at Night' (1931) and 'Enda and Means' (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving t
"It is impossible to read Brave New World without being impressed
by Huxley's eerie glimpses into the present"
*New Statesman*
"The 20th century could be seen as a race between two versions of
man-made hell - the jackbooted state totalitarianism of Orwell's
Nineteen Eight-Four, and the hedonistic ersatz paradise of Brave
New World, where absolutely everything is a consumer good and human
beings are engineered to be happy"
*Guardian*
"Aldous Huxley was uncannily prophetic, a more astute guide to the
future than any other 20th century novelist ... Nineteen
Eighty-Four has never really arrived, but Brave New World is around
us everywhere"
*JG Ballard*
"A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave
warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance.
Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. Provoking,
stimulating, shocking and dazzling"
*Observer*
"What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries
of Brave New World has become fact. The consequences are profound
and, if we don't get it right, deeply disturbing"
*Sunday Times*
"It is impossible to read Brave New World without being impressed
by Huxley's eerie glimpses into the present" * New Statesman *
"The 20th century could be seen as a race between two versions of
man-made hell - the jackbooted state totalitarianism of Orwell's
Nineteen Eight-Four, and the hedonistic ersatz paradise of Brave
New World, where absolutely everything is a consumer good and human
beings are engineered to be happy" -- Margaret Atwood * Guardian
*
"Aldous Huxley was uncannily prophetic, a more astute guide to the
future than any other 20th century novelist ... Nineteen
Eighty-Four has never really arrived, but Brave New World is around
us everywhere" -- JG Ballard
"A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave
warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance.
Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. Provoking,
stimulating, shocking and dazzling" * Observer *
"What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries
of Brave New World has become fact. The consequences are profound
and, if we don't get it right, deeply disturbing" -- John Humphrys
* Sunday Times *
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