Brave New World

This fantasy of the future is one of Aldous Huxley’s best-known books.

lts impact on the modern world has been considerable. Abandoning his mordant criticism of modern men and morals, the author switches to the future and shows us life as he conceives it may be some hundreds of years hence. Written in the thirties when – whatever the immediate outlook may have been – people believed that ultimately all would be for the best in the best of all possible worlds, this novel is a warning against such optimism. With irrepressible wit and raillery, Huxley satirises the idea of progress put forward by the scientists and philosophers; and his world of test-tube babies and “feelies” is uncomfortably closer now than it was when the book was first published.