Brave New World (Cover to Cover Classics) Review
Brave New World (Cover to Cover Classics) Overview
Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media - the philosophical and ethical controversies brought about by science and technology have never been more urgent. Has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? Listed by The New York Times as one of the 100 best-selling books of the 20th century, Brave New World seems closer than ever to becoming a reality. Michael York's outstanding reading brings the original story to life and highlights the many parallels between our world and Huxley's Utopian world. Publishers Weekly 1998 "Listen Up" Award Winner. 6 cassettes.
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"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come.
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