Brave New World

<strong>Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring "masterpiece ... one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (</strong><em><strong>Wall Street Journal</strong></em><strong>) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world"</strong><br /><br />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.<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 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. <br /><br />"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —C<em>hicago Tribune</em><br /><br />