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Aldous Huxley
ISBN: 9780099518471
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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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.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD. 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. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...
| ISBN | 0099518473 | | Weight (grammes) | 220 | | ISBN13 | 9780099518471
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Vintage | | Previous ISBN | 9780099458166 | | Imprint | Vintage Classics | | Height (mm) | 200 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 133 | | Publication date | 06 Dec 2007 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | Writer of introduction | Margaret Atwood | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 288 | |
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This book was a revelation to me when I read it for the first time at the age of 14. It challenged me to think about life further ahead than the end of the week (no mean feat for a teenager!) and it opened my eyes to the power of politics and social class on our society and limited choices in life. - Ms Melanie A Hopgood Write a review
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