Description: Easton Press leather edition of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," a COLLECTOR'S edition, New Introduction by Ashley Montagu, Illustrated by Mara McAfee, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, published in 1978. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has French moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on top edge—-in near FINE condition. Aldous Leonard Huxley, who lived from 1894-1963, was an English novelist, essayist, who was educated at ETON, and OXFORD. "Brave New World" is a fable about a world state in the 7th century A.F. After Ford, where social stability is based on a scientific caste system of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons---with Alphas being super smart and Epsilons decanted and conditioned to like dark places and to be happy that they do not have to "think" and work like Alphas and Betas. In the world state of the BNW, the citizens celebrate FORD'S DAY and are taught that "Fordliness is next to cleanliness," and the church steeples have been topped in the shape of a "T" that represent Ford. "Oh, Ford" is a common expression of disgust or happy expression. Religion has been replaced with "Orgy Porgy." The novel develops around BERNARD MARX, an unorthodox and therefore unhappy ALPHA-PLUS, who visits a New Mexico Reservation and brings back LINDA and her natural son, John Savage. Bernard enjoys conversations with HELMHOTZ WATSON and other Alphas but feels inferior because he is smaller in size and not as "studly"----questioning why Lenina, a sexy Beta, and other females are constantly wanting sex! All women take a "birth control pill" and are conditioned that 'mother' and 'father' are 'smut' words. The Savage is at first fascinated by the new world with its "Feelies," Soma---a mind-altering drug that all citizens are required to take daily, and the cleanliness and orderliness. The children chant, "A gramme is better than a Damn" and "I take a gramme and only am." In the BNW, children are "decanted" and are brain washed that "everyone belongs to everyone" and sexual intercourse is encouraged and with multiple partners. In the BNW the children are taught that "the more stiches the less riches," and "when the individual feels the community reels," and the citizens are kept busy playing Centrifugal Bumble Puppy, Escalator Squash, Obstacle Golf, watching the "Feelies" and sex, sex, and more sex. Ultimately, John Savage meets MUSTAPHA MOND, one of the World Controllers who tells the Savage that "this is the price of stability" where there is no pain, no Shakespeare, no books, no philosophy, and where death is treated with no emotions. John's mother, Linda, who grew up in the LONDON, but was lost on the Reservation, was miserable among the "Savages" and when she returned to the BNW, she stayed on a "soma holiday." Ultimately, John Savage has to decide whether to live in the BNW or go back to the Indian Reservation with its filth, disease, and its hostility to people with white skin. It is not an easy decision! 237 pages. I offer Combined shipping.
Price: 54.95 USD
Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
End Time: 2024-11-21T13:44:16.000Z
Shipping Cost: 7 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Language: English
Illustrator: Mara McAfee
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Region: LONDON and the New Mexico Reservation
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Easton Press 100
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Futuristic novel set 632 years in future
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Character Family: Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, John Savage
Year Printed: 1978
