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Brave new world, Huxley, Aldous

Year of publication: 1996
Date of first publication: 1932

Publisher: Wolters-Noordhoff Author

Pages: 220 (afterword included)

Story:

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World presents a portrait of a society which is superficially a perfect world. At first inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is carefree, problem free and depression free. All aspects of the population are controlled: number, social class, and intellectual ability are all carefully regulated. Even history is controlled and rewritten to meet the needs of the party. Stability must