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13 years, 7 months ago at Sep 17 16:31
An amazing influential book to many years to come. A timeless masterpiece that can never be remade. This sends your imagination in a twister of this world potential. One of the few books I LOVED in school. READ IT!
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"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for gr
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release date: 17 October 2006
ISBN-10 : 0060850523 | ISBN-13: 9780060850524
Release date: 17 October 2006
ISBN-10 : 0060850523 | ISBN-13: 9780060850524
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