Brave New World
Longman (1983)
A world state six centuries in the future has abolished poverty, war and disease, and with them family, religion and art. Children are grown in hatcheries and conditioned from birth into fixed castes, discontent is dissolved by the drug soma, and stability is the highest value. Bernard Marx, who never quite fits the mold, brings back a young man raised outside the system on a reservation, and the encounter between the two worlds forces the question of what a life of guaranteed comfort actually costs
קהל יעד:
Adult readers of dystopian and speculative fiction; classroom and book club reading
30 ₪
מילה אישית מהקן:
Huxley came from a family of scientists — his grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin's most prominent defender — and the biology in the novel is written from the inside. It is usually read against Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as the other model of totalitarian control: rule by pleasure rather than by fear. Orwell, who had been Huxley's French student at Eton, wrote about the comparison himself. The book has been adapted for television several times, most recently as a series in 2020