num_pages: 229
description: 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 in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasure of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress. Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
language: English
title: Brave New World
titlecomplete: Brave New World
characters: Helmholtz Watson, Fanny Crowne, Lenina Crowne, The Warden, Linda (Brave New World), Mustapha Mond, The Director, Pope, The Arch-Community Songster, John (Brave New World), Bernard Marx
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Philosophy, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1786524
places: New Mexico, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
category: Das besondere Hörbuch
publisher: Vintage