{"product_id":"vintage-classics-brave-new-world","title":"Vintage Classics Brave New World","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWelcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOur perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy,\nprivacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be\nhappy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley’s deeply\nsinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and complete\nsurveillance – no matter the cost.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as\nit was when I first read it' Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe\nHandmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'A grave warning... Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAldous Huxley\u003c\/b\u003e was born on 26 July 1894 near\nGodalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s,\nbut it was his first novel, \u003ci\u003eCrome Yellow\u003c\/i\u003e (1921), which\nestablished his literary reputation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis was swiftly followed by \u003ci\u003eAntic Hay\u003c\/i\u003e (1923), \u003ci\u003eThose\nBarren Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e (1925) and \u003ci\u003ePoint Counter Point\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) –\nbright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed\njudgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFor most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account\nof his experiences there can be found in \u003ci\u003eAlong the Road\u003c\/i\u003e (1925).\nThe great novels of ideas, including his most famous work \u003ci\u003eBrave New\nWorld\u003c\/i\u003e (published in 1932, this warned against the dehumanising aspects\nof scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel \u003ci\u003eEyeless\nin Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant\nessays, collected in volume form under titles such as \u003ci\u003eMusic at Night\u003c\/i\u003e (1931)\nand \u003ci\u003eEnds and Means\u003c\/i\u003e (1937). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to\nlive in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the\nWest braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to\nsolving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical\nenlightenment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cspan style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:等线;mso-fareast-theme-font:\nminor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\nmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-SG;mso-fareast-language:\nZH-CN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'\u003eThe exploration of the inner life through\nmysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his\nlife. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (\u003ci\u003eTime Must Have a Stop,\u003c\/i\u003e1944,\nand \u003ci\u003eIsland\u003c\/i\u003e, 1962) and non-fiction (\u003ci\u003eThe Perennial Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e,\n1945; \u003ci\u003eGrey Eminence\u003c\/i\u003e, 1941; and the account of his first mescaline \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44237367771343,"sku":"9780099518471","price":22.36,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_6eee5aaa-f9f4-4f37-8485-32da63744c18.jpg?v=1774948715","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/vintage-classics-brave-new-world","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}