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Brave new world11/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The family system will disappear society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world." 3. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. ![]() "An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature's hideous system. Scogan, enchants his company with a diatribe about a future strikingly similar to that which Huxley would come to create for Brave New World: At one point in Crome Yellow, the story’s resident cynic, Mr. While the author’s debut novel Crome Yellow was by no means a dystopian parable, the satire gave Huxley a chance to form the ideology he would later explore. ![]() Hints of Brave New World can be seen in Aldous Huxley’s first novel. Wells, like A Modern Utopia, The Sleeper Awakes, and especially Men Like Gods. When he began work on the project that would ultimately become Brave New World, Huxley was envisioning a loose and affectionate parody of the Wellsian utopia in the science fiction works of H. His early novels Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, and Those Barren Leaves had served as send-ups of the avant-garde communities of the 1920s. Brave New World started out as a parody.īefore creating his most famous work, Huxley was mostly known as a satirist. In case you haven’t taken a trip to Huxley’s World State in quite some time, here are a few interesting facts about the novel’s inspiration and the legacy it spawned. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.Aldous Huxley’s 1932 classic Brave New World is arguably one of the most inventive novels published in the 20th century. A sharp copy of an increasingly elusive title to find in collectible condition. Housed in a custom solander box with gilt titling, marbled inserts and a silk tie. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century. The book was immediately successful' (Parker & Kermode, 161-62). The novel also marks Huxley's increasing disenchantment with the world, which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was to challenge H.G. 'After the success of his first three novels, Huxley abandoned the fictional milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined future. Easily Huxley's most popular (and many good judges continue to think his best) novel' (DNB). A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science. The wrapper artwork looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Light edgewear with a few nicks and small closed tears in places and a light horizontal scratch to the rear panel. Some rubbing to the folds and corners and small losses at the upper corners. A few rubbed areas to the upper spine end with a little loss, not involving the lettering. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. A hint of toning to the text-block and extreme page edges. Neat 'Henry Sotheran' bookseller sticker to the lower front pastedown. Light pushing at the spine ends and a tiny bump to the lower rear corner. Gilt titling and decoration remain vibrant. Original blue boards with slight fading of the blue colouring to the spine. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. The First UK printing published by Chatto and Windus, London in 1932. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to corner tips, 12 mm mended closed tear at the upper left front corner, light wear to spine ends with small 'v' chip to upper spine panel, two tiny chips at base of spine panel with tiny closed tear, a clean, attractive copy. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 602. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 437. stands alongside WE and NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR as one of the classic dystopian novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-56. 2-306 excised], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained blue, bottom edge rough trimmed. ![]()
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