Brave New World
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Brave New World
AUTHOR:
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Bradshaw, David
ISBN:
9780099518471
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Vintage Books, 2007
PHYSICAL_DESC:
1, 229 p. ; 20 cm
SERIES:
Vintage classics
SERIES_TITLE:
Vintage classics
ABSTRACT:
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.
SUBJECT:
| English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism |
| Science -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction |
| Genetic engineering -- Fiction |
| Science fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.