如今，任何關心人類精神的人都必須閱讀並理解奧爾德斯·赫胥黎的這部不朽傑作。 「一部傑作……最具預言性的反烏托邦作品之一。」——《華爾街日報》 奧爾德斯·赫胥黎的這部意義深遠的文學經典《美麗新世界》描繪了一個不平等、科技高度發達的未來世界：人類被基因改造、社會灌輸和藥物麻醉，被迫被動地維護一個專制的統治秩序——這一切都以我們的自由、完整的人性，甚至靈魂為代價。 「一位天才，他畢生都在譴責機器的不斷擴張」（《紐約客》），赫胥黎是一位才華橫溢的人物：他既是藝術家，又是精神探索者，更是歷史上對人性和文明最敏銳的觀察者之一。

ow more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit

"A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works." --Wall Street Journal

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--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. "A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine" (The 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 to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as 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 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.