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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Author Biography

Name: Aldous Leonard Huxley
Birth Date: July 26, 1894
Death Date: November 22, 1963
Place of Birth: Godalming, England
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, critic

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Biography of Aldous Leonard Huxley
684 words, approx. 2.3 pages
The novels, short stories, and essays of the English author Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) explore crucial questions of science, religion, and philosophy. Aldous Huxley was born into a family of intellectual prominence. His father, Leonard, was the so...
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Biography of Aldous (Leonard) Huxley
11850 words, approx. 39.5 pages
Tall, witty, charismatic, conspicuously handsome, a polymath, Aldous Huxley was an intellectual lighthouse for over forty years. He wrote poetry; drama; screenplays; journalism; biography; social, scientific, and intellectual history; he was a distinguis...
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Biography of Aldous Huxley
6612 words, approx. 22 pages
Novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley has been described by New Statesman contributor V. S. Pritchett as "that rare being--the prodigy, the educable young man, the perennial asker of unusual questions." Defining Huxley as a hybrid "artist-educator," Pritch...
 


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Brave New World Summary
3,717 words, approx. 12 pages
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 into one of England's most distinguished intellectual families. His grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley, was a brilliant biologist nicknamed "Darwin's bulldog" for his staunch support of the...
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Brave New World Summary
1,922 words, approx. 6 pages
One common way to evoke unease about modern science and technology is to say that humanity is headed toward a "brave new world." Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, first published in 1932, depicts a World State in which...
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Brave New World Information
5,513 words, approx. 18 pages
<i>Brave New World</i> is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932. Set in London in 2579 CE, the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, biological engineering, and sleep-learning that combine to change society. Huxley answers...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Hillary's Brave New World
9/18/2007: 285 words, approx. 1 pages
Hillary Clinton's health care speech was a deliberate, no-frills address. She gesticulated rarely. Read carefully. And eschewed the bright blue and yellow jackets she's been wearing lately for a sober gray blazer and pearls. But there was one little-remarked portion of the speech in which...
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Welsh Wonder: A RichardBurton Quiz
10/8/2007: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10: Burton 's first Oscar nomination came with his first US movie, a 1952 adaptation of which Daphne Du Maurier novel? Jamaica Inn Rebecca My Cousin Rachel Frenchman's Creek Question 2 of 10: Burton wowed audiences in 1959 as the...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Peter E. Firchow
653 words, approx. 2 pages
Brave New World is actually … a satire not so much of the future as of the present: of the future as it is implicit in the present. Huxley resorts to future remoteness for the same reasons that other Utopian satirists had earlier resorted to geographical or past remoteness (e.g. More, Swift or Anatole France): in order to gain the necessary distance and detachment to more effectively satirize the present. Huxley's satirical point in this novel is that if the present continues to "progre...
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Essay Grade: 95%
The Unfortunate Suffering As A Result Of Demolished Individuality
2,900 words, approx. 10 pages
Essay about the suffering individual in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
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Essay Grade: 96%
Brave New World Vs. Blade Runner
2,190 words, approx. 7 pages
A comparative study of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Ridley Scott's film "Blade Runner."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Comparison of the Opening Scenes of Brave New World and the Crucible
2,172 words, approx. 7 pages
Compares the effectiveness, functions and literary features of the opening scenes of Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller.
 


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