A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's inconic dystopian classic, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari
'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood
'If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice' Yuval Noah Harari
Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.
Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs.
You can be happy too.
All you need to do is take your Soma pills.
This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete surveillance - no matter the cost.
'Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' Observer
'Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression' The Times
Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784879686
Number of pages: 256
Dimensions: 205 x 136 x 25 mm
Weight: 302 g
Language: English
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Neuromancer
The Forever War
The Complete Robot
The War of the Worlds
Paradises Lost
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Life, the Universe and Everything
Flowers For Algernon
2001: A Space Odyssey
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
Brave New World
The Day of the Triffids
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Not as good as its hype but nevertheless a beautiful written and poetic novel.
Given the reputation of this book I was expecting a complicated in depth insight into modern society highlighting all the flaws, questions and dilemmas of conformity, scientific advances, genetic research and human... More
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