Brave New World - Abridged Author:Aldous Huxley Abridged edition. — "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. — Everything is in orde... more »r, the population is divided into five castes each with specific roles. Sex comes at the prescribed times and with prescribed people. There's even a drug "Soma" to help you keep your mind in order. Everything seems to be in order for everyone. For everyone, that is, except Bernard Marx, who feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young woman has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British-born novelist, poet, essayist, philosopher and mystic, Huxley was fascinated by the wilder margins of psychology, medicine, the occult, drugs and religion. He was a man of exceptional vision and foresight, and his breadth of learning was astounding. He wrote over 50 books, including such classics as Crome Yellow, The Doors of Perception, Island, and Brave New World.« less