ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Brave New World, novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World was published in 1932 by Chatto & Windus. Leslie Holland designed this cover for the first edition. Huxley’s dystopian novel describes a future society in which technological and medical innovations are used by the state to exercise control over its citizens.

Detailed explanation-3: -Huxley, Aldous. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Harper later acquired the copyright to all of Huxley’s earlier books with his previous publisher, Doubleday, including the classic Brave New World (1932), which paints a terrifying image of London in the year 2540–a society conditioned and controlled with technology and hallucinogens.

Detailed explanation-5: -With its themes of sexual promiscuity, drug use and suicide, “Brave New World” tells a story in a bleak future where the populace is manipulated and controlled by the state. Schools in Miller, Mo., banned “Brave New World” in 1980 because of its characters’ acceptance of promiscuous sex.