Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Brave New World de Aldous Huxley

Brave New World (Vintage Huxley)

De (autor)
Notă Books Express:  5.00 · o notă  
Notă GoodReads:
en Limba Engleză Paperback – September 2004

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress... Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

Citește tot Restrânge
Toate formatele și edițiile
Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (11) 3856 lei  3-5 săpt. +1264 lei  6-12 zile
  Random House – September 2004 3856 lei  3-5 săpt. +1264 lei  6-12 zile
  Random House – 06 Dec 2007 3986 lei  10-17 zile +919 lei  6-12 zile
  Vintage Publishing – 03 Sep 2020 5178 lei  10-17 zile +1191 lei  6-12 zile
  Reclam Philipp Jun. – March 1992 5295 lei  17-24 zile +417 lei  6-12 zile
  Pearson Education – 09 Jun 2005 5324 lei  21-33 zile +296 lei  6-12 zile
  Cornelsen Vlg Scriptor – September 2008 7082 lei  17-24 zile +570 lei  6-12 zile
  Klett Sprachen GmbH – 12 Nov 2007 7683 lei  17-24 zile +715 lei  6-12 zile
  Diesterweg Moritz – 2010 8919 lei  17-24 zile +837 lei  6-12 zile
  HarperCollins Publishers – 17 Oct 2006 9004 lei  3-5 săpt. +2878 lei  11-18 zile
  Diesterweg Moritz – October 2011 10608 lei  17-24 zile +871 lei  6-12 zile
  HarperCollins Publishers – 19 Jan 2010 12934 lei  3-5 săpt. +974 lei  11-18 zile
Hardback (6) 6042 lei  10-17 zile +1589 lei  6-12 zile
  EVERYMAN – 27 Sep 2013 6042 lei  10-17 zile +1589 lei  6-12 zile
  Random House – 24 Feb 2022 9411 lei  10-17 zile +2252 lei  6-12 zile
  Random House – 21 Apr 2022 11635 lei  10-17 zile +3304 lei  6-12 zile
  HarperCollins Publishers – 09 May 2017 15838 lei  3-5 săpt. +1200 lei  11-18 zile
  Perfection Learning – October 2006 18299 lei  3-5 săpt. +1393 lei  12-20 zile
  Bloomsbury Publishing – October 2006 22625 lei  3-5 săpt. +1729 lei  12-20 zile
CD-Audio (1) 6010 lei  10-17 zile +2474 lei  6-12 zile
  Random House – October 2016 6010 lei  10-17 zile +2474 lei  6-12 zile

Din seria Vintage Huxley

Preț: 3856 lei

Preț vechi: 5507 lei
-30%

Puncte Express: 58
Preț estimativ în valută:
744€ • 736$ • 652£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 28 octombrie-11 noiembrie
Livrare express 13-19 octombrie pentru 2263 lei

Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099477464
ISBN-10: 0099477467
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 110 x 177 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Random House
Seria Vintage Huxley

Notă biografică

Aldous Huxley was born on 26 July 1894 near Godalming, Surrey. He began writing poetry and short stories in his early 20s, but it was his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which established his literary reputation. This was swiftly followed by Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928) - bright, brilliant satires in which Huxley wittily but ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. For most of the 1920s Huxley lived in Italy and an account of his experiences there can be found in Along the Road (1925). The great novels of ideas, including his most famous work Brave New World (published in 1932 this warned against the dehumanising aspects of scientific and material 'progress') and the pacifist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) were accompanied by a series of wise and brilliant essays, collected in volume form under titles such as Music at Night (1931) and Ends and Means (1937). In 1937, at the height of his fame, Huxley left Europe to live in California, working for a time as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As the West braced itself for war, Huxley came increasingly to believe that the key to solving the world's problems lay in changing the individual through mystical enlightenment. The exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs was to dominate his work for the rest of his life. His beliefs found expression in both fiction (Time Must Have a Stop,1944, and Island, 1962) and non-fiction (The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Grey Eminence, 1941; and the account of his first mescalin experience, The Doors of Perception, 1954. Huxley died in California on 22 November 1963.

Cuprins

  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Part 2: The Text
  • Part 3: Critical Approaches
  • Part 4: Critical History
  • Part 5: Background
  • Further Reading
  • Literacy Terms

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Now more than ever, “one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century” (Wall Street Journal) must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our brave new world.
Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order whose motto is “Community, Identity, Stability”—all at the cost of our freedom, humanity, and perhaps our souls.
“A genius who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (New Yorker), 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. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning as we head into tomorrow and a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a twenty-first-century world dominated by mass  entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

Recenzii

“[A] masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century.” — Wall Street Journal
“As sparkling, as provocative, as brilliant...as the day it was published.” — Martin Green
“One of the 20th century’s greatest writers.” — Washington Post
“Chilling. . . . That he gave us the dark side of genetic engineering in 1932 is amazing.” — Providence Journal-Bulletin
“A genius . . . a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.” — The New Yorker
“Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English.” — Chicago Tribune
“Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” — New York Times Book Review
“A sometimes appallingly accurate view of today’s world.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“It’s time for everyone to read or reread Brave New World.” — Raleigh News & Observer