By this time, Huxley had already established himself as a writer and social satirist. Huxley wrote Brave New World while living in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, in the four months from May to August 1931.
Translations of the title often allude to similar expressions used in domestic works of literature: the French edition of the work is entitled Le Meilleur des mondes ( The Best of All Worlds), an allusion to an expression used by the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and satirised in Candide, Ou l'Optimisme by Voltaire (1759). Indeed, the next speaker replies to Miranda's innocent observation with the statement "They are new to thee."
Shakespeare's use of the phrase is intended ironically, as the speaker is failing to recognise the evil nature of the island's visitors because of her innocence. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. It has landed on the American Library Association list of top 100 banned and challenged books of the decade since the association began the list in 1990. Despite this, Brave New World has frequently been banned and challenged since its original publication. 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", and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at number 5 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (published 1949). Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist. Nineteen Eighty-Four has never really arrived, but Brave New World is around us everywhere It is impossible to read Brave New World without being impressed by Huxley's eerie glimpses into the present * New Statesman * Read more.Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Provoking, stimulating, shocking and dazzling * Observer * Such ingenious wit, derisive logic and swiftness of expression, Huxley's resources of sardonic invention have never been more brilliantly displayed * The Times * Aldous Huxley was uncannily prophetic, a more astute guide to the future than any other 20th century novelist.
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Full of barbed wit and malice-spiked frankness. A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance. If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice. Huxley's nightmare, set out in Brave New World, his great dystopian novel, was that we would be undone by the things that delight us * Guardian * The most prophetic book of the 20th century.