![]() Nineteen Eighty-Four has never really arrived, but Brave New World is around us everywhere It is impossible to read Brave New World without being impressed by Huxley's eerie glimpses into the present * New Statesman * Read more. Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic booksThe Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hellin which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling * Observer * Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression, Huxley's resources of sardonic invention have never been more brilliantly displayed * The Times * Aldous Huxley was uncannily prophetic, a more astute guide to the future than any other 20th century novelist. Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. ![]() A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance. Such titles are in the public domain in many countries, particularly those outside the US and Europe. If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice. The Online Books Page Warning Restricted Access The title you have selected (Brave New World Revisited) is a post-1925 publication by an author who died more than 50 years ago. ![]() Huxley's nightmare, set out in Brave New World, his great dystopian novel, was that we would be undone by the things that delight us * Guardian * The most prophetic book of the 20th century.
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