Edition |
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. |
Description |
259, 22 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series |
Harper Perennial modern classics |
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Harper Perennial modern classics.
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Note |
Originally published: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1932. |
Summary |
Huxley's vision of the future in this, his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World, a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed to be passive, consistently useful to the ruling class. |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.5 11.0 8653. |
Subject |
Passivity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Genetic engineering -- Fiction.
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Totalitarianism -- Fiction.
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Collectivism -- Fiction.
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ISBN |
0060850523 |
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9780060850524 |
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