Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford,he died in Los Angeles, California.
Amy Jurskis, the author of these teaching materials, holds a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia and a MAT from Agnes Scott College. A former department chair for language arts in a title one public school in Atlanta, she currently serves as a chairperson of curriculum and English teacher at Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches.
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a "utopian" future, humans are genetically designed and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded and as a thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.
This deluxe edition also includes the nonfiction work "Brave New World Revisited," "a thought-jabbing, terrifying book" (Chicago Tribune), first published in 1958. It is a fascinating essay in which Huxley compares the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World. He scrutinizes threats to humanity such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them.
Chinese government has been trying to build a harmonious socialism society these years. They wish people in that kind of society can live in harmony with each other, making the political, economical and cultural development. The various parts of the society...
评分2503年,一个婴儿养育室里。护士们在地板上摆了一堆图书和鲜花,然后把一群长得一摸一样的、8个月大的婴儿放到了地板上。婴儿们看到图书和鲜花,飞快地爬过去,拿起来玩耍。这时候,长官一声令下,护士长启动电路装置,一时间,刺耳的警报响起,地板被通上了电,触电的...
评分首先说,看这本书来自neil.postman的《娱乐至死》,后来才知道其与奥威尔的《1984》,扎米亚京的《我们》并称为反乌托邦三部曲,在postman看来《美丽新世界》和《1984》描绘的是两个相反的未来,而在读过此书后,我觉得这种相反反而只是表面上的。内在来看,他们描绘的都是又精...
评分阿道司.赫胥黎在其经典著作《重返美丽新世界》的结尾里,简要地描述了实施“关于自由的教育”的必要性。或许由于赫胥黎对未来持悲观看法,这一终章给人的感觉是:自由价值的失败不可避免,其捍卫者所能做的,仅仅是拖延失败的来临,以及以“平静的良心”(欧里庇得斯语)拒绝在...
评分这些天,痛苦一遍遍地翻腾。在放纵心灵和等待麻木的过程中,我读到了《美丽新世界》。 那不一定是想象中的救赎,但至少带来了安慰。 不想讨论它的反乌托邦涵义和显而易见的政治讽喻,我只知道老赫胥黎穿越74年的时光让我明白孤独和痛苦意味着激情未泯,灵魂仍然品尝得到渴望的...
后面的revisit比较好看
评分I don’t want comfort. I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
评分设定还是很有意思的,但是对于the savage的一些苦行的做法非常不能理解,而且后面仔细想想the savage的很多言论和思想不符合逻辑
评分I don’t want comfort. I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
评分I don’t want comfort. I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
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