The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.</p>

The nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.</p>

阿道司·赫胥黎，英国文豪，著名的赫胥黎家族最杰出的成员之一，从小受到良好教育，先后毕业于伊顿公学和牛津大学。赫胥黎一生中创作了大量优秀作品，其中最著名有长篇小说《美丽新世界》（Brave New World，1932）、社会学论著《重返美丽新世界》（Brave New World Revisited，1958）和纪实文学《卢丹的恶魔》（The Devils of Loudun，1952）等。他对人类面临的社会问题有着常人望尘莫及的洞察力，因此使其成为二十世纪英国最杰出的公共知识分子之一。他作品中的诸多预言在今时今日看来竟已多数成真。

庄蝶庵，作家、翻译，著有小说《反西游记》《濠上忆旧》《植物人》等，译有《点评本福尔摩斯探案集精选》《重返美丽新世界》《卢丹的恶魔》等，现任教于南京财经大学新闻学院。