Works by Aldous Huxley (Study Guide) - Books by Aldous Huxley, Essay Collections by Aldous Huxley, Essays by Aldous Huxley (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (works not included). Pages: 122. Not illustrated. Chapters: Books by Aldous Huxley, Essay Collections by Aldous Huxley, Essays by Aldous Huxley, Novels by Aldous Huxley, Short Stories by Aldous Huxley, Short Story Collections by Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, the Doors of Perception, List of Quotes From Shakespeare in Brave New World, Island, the Art of Seeing, Ape and Essence, After Many a Summer, the Genius and the Goddess, Point Counter Point, Heaven and Hell, Antic Hay, the Crows of Pearblossom, the Devils of Loudun, Eyeless in Gaza, Crome Yellow, the Perennial Philosophy, Mortal Coils, Jacob's Hands: a Fable, Music at Night, Those Barren Leaves, Collected Short Stories, Brief Candles, Literature and Science, Grey Eminence, Beyond the Mexique Bay, Limbo, Ends and Means, Little Mexican, Two or Three Graces. Excerpt: Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of futurism. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962), both summarized below. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Brave New World's ironic title derives from Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I: This line is word-by-word quoted in the novel by John the Savage, when he first sees Lenina. The expression "brave new world" also appears in Emile Zola's Germinal (1885): and in Rudyard Kipling's 1919 poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings: Translations of the novel into other language...