Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World
£325
London, Chatto & Windus, 1932.
A pillar of the 20th century’s dystopian architecture: Huxley acknowledged the book began as a parody of Wells’s optimistic utopias, Men Like Gods specifically, before the joke deepened into the World State entire: Bokanovsky-processed embryos decanted by caste, soma, the feelies, Our Ford, and happiness administered until nothing human survives it.
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Cloth slightly rubbed at corners, overall very good.
Provenance: Adrian Berrill (bookplate).
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