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Brave new world  Cover Image Book Book

Brave new world / Aldous Huxley. --

Summary:

This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062696120 (hc)
  • Physical Description: 288 p.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperColliins, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:
This book was banned and challenged for profanity, immorality, drug use, and because it was claimed to be sexually explicit.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 16.99
Subject: Banned book sanctuary.
Classics > Fiction
Literary > Fiction
Passivity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Genetic engineering > Fiction.
Totalitarianism > Fiction.
Collectivism > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Political fiction.
Science fiction.
Dystopias.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch FIC Huxle 31681020062956 FICTION Available -
Lakeshore Branch FIC Huxle 31681010342087 BOOK SANCTUARY Available -

Electronic resources

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  • HARPERCOLL

    A gorgeous hardcover edition of Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork, "one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century" (Wall Street Journal), that must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit in the face of our "brave new world" 

    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. 


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