The Book Club Bible by Lionel Shriver

Author:Lionel Shriver
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843177616
Publisher: Michael O' Mara Books
Published: 2011-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Brave New World

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Published 1932 / Length 288 pages

‘I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.’ – ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World is set in the year of Our Ford 632: 632 years after Henry Ford created the first mass-produced car, the Model T, and became the deity of humankind. The novel describes a society based on the principles of ‘community, identity and stability’, in which families have been eliminated and citizens are both biologically and psychologically conditioned to accept their station in life with pleasure. There is a great deal of ambivalence throughout: there are both advantages and perils to the World State’s system. Bernard Marx, a high-ranking individual unhappy with his lot, travels to one of the few Savage Reservations – where the expense of bringing ‘civilization’ as this world knows it has been deemed too great – and observes the human chaos of ‘pre-Ford’ life.

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