
Brave New World
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Narrated by:
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Michael York
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By:
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Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before.
“One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century”—Wall Street Journal
Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media—has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller’s genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.
A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.
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"British actor Michael York's refined and dramatic reading captures both the tone and the spirit of Huxley's masterpiece." (AudioFile)
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still frightening all these years later
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Keep in mind, it's a classic.
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Huxley's exploration of a society that chooses happiness and comfort as its guiding principles, and enslaves itself rather than face the responsibilities and uncertainties that accompany freedom, finds many parallels in the modern developed world. Huxley's villain doesn't have to torture people until four fingers look like five, or change the language until people can't even remember how to think about rebelling, or make fake wars to keep the people scared.
Instead, Huxley shows a possible future even more troubling: societal-level contentment and self-limitation.
Truth and beauty versus comfort and happiness
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This is a novel that is well ahead of its time and the description of the world is very clever and the language and turn of phrase employed is wonderful.
Micheal York really brings this to life with a masterful performance.
Fascinating and unique classic novel, well read
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Not Quite
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Amazing Sci-Fi for the time
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Will read again!
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Not a big fan
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Masterful Dramatist!
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Provoking
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