{"product_id":"brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-9780060850524","title":"Brave New World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works.\" \u003cem\u003e--Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e, is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future built on pervasive social conditioning. In this future, humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anaesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A genius [who] spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine\" (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history's keenest observers of human nature and civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as a landmark of dystopian fiction and as a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass entertainment, technology, medicine, and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397781635308,"sku":"9780060850524","price":52.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/0d6c095d1f9968abb90233a7ba2e9a65.jpg?v=1773781919","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/brave-new-world-by-aldous-huxley-9780060850524","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}