The irony and satire with which he whips 1931 London society is worth reading.ĭr. The concept of nature through the character of John the Savage depicts volumes about the totalitarian state which the author portrays beautifully. Huxley's Brave New World is a remarkable piece of writing which prophesies the futuristic world. The novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in 'the top 100 greatest novels of all time'. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, 'Brave New World Revisited' (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel. 'Hug me till you drug me, honey Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny Love's as good as soma.'-Lenina Crowne-chapter 11Ī dystopian novel set in London in AD 2540 (632 A.F.-'After Ford'-in the book), the story anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society. The novel's title is derived from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I: 'O wonder! How many godly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't.'

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