Brave New World

<p><b>Aldous Huxley (Author) </b><br> <b>Aldous Huxley</b> was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s but it was his first novel <i>Crome Yellow</i> (1921) which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by <i>Antic Hay</i> (1923) <i>Those Barren Leaves</i> (1925) and <i>Point Counter Point</i> (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 <i>Along the Road</i> (1925). The great novels of ideas including his most famous work <i>Brave New World</i> (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel <i>Eyeless in Gaza</i> (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays collected in volume form under titles such as <i>Music at Night</i> (1931) and <i>Ends and Means</i> (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 the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (<i>Time Must Have a Stop</i>1944 and <i>Island</i> 1962) and non-fiction (<i>The Perennial Philosophy</i> 1945; <i>Grey Eminence</i> 1941; and the account of his first mescaline experience <i>The Doors of Perception</i> 1954). Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.<br><br><b>Yuval Noah Harari (Introducer) </b><br> <b>Prof Yuval Noah Harari </b>has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specialising in World History. <i>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind</i> has become an international phenomenon attracting a legion of fans from Bill Gates and Barack Obama to Chris Evans and Jarvis Cocker and is published in 65 languages worldwide. It was a <i>Sunday Times</i> Number One bestseller and was in the Top Ten for over nine months in paperback. His follow-up to <i>Sapiens</i> <i>Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow </i>was also a Top Ten Bestseller and was described by the <i>Guardian</i> as 'even more readable even more important than his excellent <i>Sapiens</i>'. <i>21 Lessons for the 21st Century</i> was a Number One Bestseller and was described by Bill Gates as 'fascinating' and 'crucial'. Harari worked closely with renowned comics illustrator Daniel Casanave and co-writer David Vandermeulen to create his latest book an adaptation of his first bestseller <i>Sapiens Graphic Novel: Volume 1</i>. <br><br><br><br></p> <p><b>A sumptuous gift edition to mark the 90th anniversary of first publication. </b><b>With an Introduction by Yuval Noah Harari.</b><br><br><b>'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant fresh and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></b><br><br><i>Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.</i> Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy privacy money family and history itself. Now everyone belongs.<br><br>You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.<br><br>Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel written in 1932 which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost.<br><b><br>'A grave warning... Provoking stimulating shocking and dazzling' <i>Observer</i></b><br><b><br>**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**</b></p> Huxley's nightmare set out in <i>Brave New World</i> <b>his great dystopian novel</b> was that we would be undone by the things that delight us The most prophetic book of the 20th century... If you have time for just one book <b>this would be my top choice</b>. A brilliant tour de force <i>Brave New World</i> may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance. Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. <b>Provoking stimulating shocking and dazzling</b> Such <b>ingenious wit derisive logic and swiftness of expression</b> Huxley's resources of sardonic invention have never been more brilliantly displayed Aldous Huxley was <b>uncannily prophetic</b> a more astute guide to the future than any other 20th century novelist <i>... </i><i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> has never really arrived but <i>Brave </i><b><i></i></b><i>New World</i> is around us everywhere <p><b>A sumptuous gift edition to mark the 90th anniversary of first publication. </b><b>With an Introduction by Yuval Noah Harari.</b><br><br><b>'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant fresh and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></b><br><br><i>Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.</i> Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy privacy money family and history itself. Now everyone belongs.<br><br>You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.<br><br>Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel written in 1932 which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost.<br><b><br>'A grave warning... Provoking stimulating shocking and dazzling' <i>Observer</i></b><br><b><br>**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**</b></p>