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Top 10 Brave New World Books

By Esther Lombardi, About.com

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was published in 1932. This Utopian/dystopian future offers soma and other carnal pleasures, while manipulating the people into mind-numbing dependance. Read more about books related to Brave New World.

1. Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley. HarperCollins.

2. Brave New World

This large-print edition of Aldous Huxley's classic Utopian/dystopia novel offers a new look at science and industrialized society, with eugenics and soma. This book is published by Transaction Publishers.

3. Brave New World Revisited

In Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley offers an important work--not only because it allows us to understand more of what he accomplished in Brave New World, but also because he connects his dystopian fantasy with the modern-day experience. What are the issues we deal with every day? In this book Huxley looks at the threats: overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.
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4. Brave New World

Trafalgar Square Computer & Audio offers Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in CD audio and tape editions. Listen along as you read the book. This audio book is narrated by Michael York.

5. Science and Literature: Bridging the Two Cultures

by David L. Wilson, Zack Bowen. University Press of Florida. From the publisher: "Addressing fundamental issues of human nature and the ability of science to understand it, and using texts from the biblical Genesis to 'Brave New World,' they explore topics from ethics and social values to chaos theory."
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6. Readings on a Brave New World

Katie De Koster edits this book from the Gale Group. In all its grim reality, Brave New World offers a great deal of material for study. Here's an exploration of the major themes and prophecies of the famous dystopian classic.

7. Bicycling to Utopia: Essays on Science and Technology

by Peter Day (Editor), Richard Catlow (Editor). Oxford University Press. From the publisher: "Together with other essays by experts in their fields, this volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology."
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8. Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

by Aldous Huxley. HarperCollins. From the publisher: "Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy."
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9. Modernist Novel: Aldous Huxley

by Conrad Watt (Editor). Routledge. From the publisher: "Writings include: 'Brave New World,' 'Crome Yellow,' 'Eyeless in Gaza.' Volume covers the period 1920-1965. Extras: Appendicies list translations and collected works sales."
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10. Aldous Huxley, A Biography

by Nicholas Murray. St. Martin's Press. From the publisher: "Huxley emerges from this new biography as one of the most intriguing and complex figures of twentieth-century English writing -- novelist, poet, biographer, philosopher, social and political thinker."
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