Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford,he died in Los Angeles, California.
Amy Jurskis, the author of these teaching materials, holds a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia and a MAT from Agnes Scott College. A former department chair for language arts in a title one public school in Atlanta, she currently serves as a chairperson of curriculum and English teacher at Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches.
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a "utopian" future, humans are genetically designed and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded and as a thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.
This deluxe edition also includes the nonfiction work "Brave New World Revisited," "a thought-jabbing, terrifying book" (Chicago Tribune), first published in 1958. It is a fascinating essay in which Huxley compares the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World. He scrutinizes threats to humanity such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them.
奥威尔担心我们憎恨的东西会毁掉我们,而赫胥黎担心的是,我们将毁于我们热爱的东西。 ——尼尔·波兹曼 我的身边有很多这样的同学,整天打英雄联盟,饿了吃饭,困了睡觉。我们的课程中有很多这样不得不去学习的课程,思想品德、马克思主义原理、毛泽东思想和中国特色社会主义...
评分曾经有幸参加过一次读书会,主题乔治奥威尔,不外乎是谈《动物庄园》与《1984》。当时在场的更多人是更喜欢《动物庄园》,而我对那本书却没什么很深刻的感觉,只很喜欢《1984》。当然《1984》也是有不少讨论的,一片引申,而我却只在旁听与发呆,基本没有发言。只是现在回想起...
评分这版让人特别抓狂就是为了减少人名的讽刺性把很对一看就是有所指的人名变成了音译,以让人减少联想。没看过其他版本的翻译,借助百科,还原人名指代和暗含之意。 柏纳德·马克斯,Bernard Marx,这个名字是George Bernard Shaw(乔治·萧伯纳和Karl Marx(卡尔·马克思)。萧...
评分最初了解到《美丽新世界》,是在初中时读的《科幻世界》。后来读《娱乐至死》,波兹曼不止一次提到本书,促成了我对其阅读的机会。第一次阅读本书是在大学时代,距今也7、8年了。当时的震撼至今难忘,但也留下了诸多困惑和不解。在那时写下的书评最后,我曾写下一连串疑问: “...
评分英剧《黑镜》中就刻画的是这个美妙的新世界。人们穿着相同的衣服,生活在高科技的虚拟房间里,每天通过踩单车换取点数,除了踩单车外,人们就只呆在房间里,用虚拟货币收看电视,更换自己的虚拟形象,这简直就是《娱乐至死》和《美妙新世界》的结合体。 回到《美妙新世...
后面的revisit比较好看
评分I don’t want comfort. I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
评分I don’t want comfort. I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
评分设定还是很有意思的,但是对于the savage的一些苦行的做法非常不能理解,而且后面仔细想想the savage的很多言论和思想不符合逻辑
评分I don’t want comfort. I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
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