Brave New World

<p><strong>Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit</strong></p><p><strong>A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works. <em>--Wall Street Journal</em> </strong></p><p>Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature <em>Brave New World</em> 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 (<em>The New Yorker</em>) 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. </p><p><em>Brave New World </em>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 <em>Brave New World</em> 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. </p>