Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

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“It shows the ways in which technology, our need for certain creature comforts and consumer culture can be used to manipulate us.” Read more...

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Ellen Wayland-Smith, Miscellaneous

“Brave New World was written in the 1930s, and the book portrays a happy dystopia. There is an abundance of sex. People have a good time.” Read more...

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