{"product_id":"brave-new-world","title":"Brave New World","description":"\u003cp\u003eAldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future built on pervasive social conditioning, where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. \"A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrave New World,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ehis 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elikewise 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","brand":"Publish date - 2007 - paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54028530843958,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/Screenshot2026-05-14at3.30.23PM.png?v=1778790632","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/brave-new-world","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}