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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World Quotes
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Brave New World ( 1932 ) is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley . The title derives from a line spoken by "Miranda" in The Tempest by William Shakespeare , which is quoted by "The Savage" in the novel: "O brave new world, That has such people in't!"...


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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Brave New World 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 this novel...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Brave new world
03/30/2001: 491 words, approx. 2 pages
Brave new world Historical Association plans memorial for team By DAN MANOYAN of the Journal Sentinel staff Friday, March 30, 2001 All that's left of their happy hunting ground is a pile of twisted steel and broken concrete. ...
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Brave new world?
11/01/2000: 569 words, approx. 2 pages
Everyone is talking about e-commerce. A friend and I were talking about how life had changed in the past 25 years. The more we talked, the more astounded we became at the changes in society and business we have seen during our work...
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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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Wife of Aldous Huxley dies at 96
12/16/2007: 344 words, approx. 1 pages
Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.Huxley died of cancer Thursday night at her Hollywood Hills...
 


Criticism and Essays
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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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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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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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Comparison of the Opening Scenes of Brave New World and the Crucible
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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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