Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

This edition gathers two of Huxley's best-known works. The first is the 1932 novel, a satire set in a future World State where people are engineered, conditioned and soothed by pleasure, and where an outsider challenges the cost of such contentment. The second is a later set of essays in which Huxley reviews the real world of the 1950s and asks how far such control had advanced, discussing propaganda, overpopulation, persuasion and conformity. Together they show his ideas in fiction and in argument, and they invite readers to think about freedom in modern life.