num_pages: 201
description: This fantasy of the future is one of Aldous Huxley’s best-known books. lts impact on the modern world has been considerable. Abandoning his mordant criticism of modern men and morals, the author switches to the future and shows us life as he conceives it may be some hundreds of years hence. Written in the thirties when - whatever the immediate outlook may have been - people believed that ultimately all would be for the best in the best of all possible worlds, this novel is a warning against such optimism. With irrepressible wit and raillery, Huxley satirizes the idea of progress put forward by the scientists and philosophers; and his world of test-tube babies and "feelies" is uncomfortably closer now than it was when the book was first published.The cover shows a detail from "Mechanical Elements" by F. Léger at the Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris (Snark International)For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A.
language: English
title: Brave New World
titlecomplete: Brave New World
characters: The Arch-Community Songster, Linda (Brave New World), Pope, The Director, John (Brave New World), Fanny Crowne, Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, The Warden, Lenina Crowne, Mustapha Mond
genres: Fantasy, Dystopia, Audiobook, School, Philosophy, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 1787113
places: New Mexico, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
category: Das besondere Hörbuch
publisher: Penguin Books