《美麗新世界》，刻畫了一個(gè)距今600年的未來世界，物質(zhì)生活十分豐富，科學(xué)技術(shù)高度發(fā)達(dá)，人們接受著各種安于現(xiàn)狀的制約和教育，所有一切都被標(biāo)準(zhǔn)統(tǒng)一化，人的欲望可以隨時(shí)隨地得到完全滿足，享受著衣食無(wú)憂的日子，不必?fù)?dān)心生老病死帶來的痛苦，然而在機(jī)械文明的社會(huì)中卻無(wú)所謂家庭、個(gè)性、情緒、自由和道德，人與人之間根本不存在真實(shí)的情感，人性在機(jī)器的碾磨下灰飛煙滅。本書為英文原版，經(jīng)典32開本便于隨身攜帶閱讀，精校版忠于原著，同時(shí)提供英文朗讀免費(fèi)下載。 Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. The title of this book derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, (Act V, Scene I). Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.-"After Ford"-in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of "the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century". In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for...《美麗新世界》，刻畫了一個(gè)距今600年的未來世界，物質(zhì)生活十分豐富，科學(xué)技術(shù)高度發(fā)達(dá)，人們接受著各種安于現(xiàn)狀的制約和教育，所有一切都被標(biāo)準(zhǔn)統(tǒng)一化，人的欲望可以隨時(shí)隨地得到完全滿足，享受著衣食無(wú)憂的日子，不必?fù)?dān)心生老病死帶來的痛苦，然而在機(jī)械文明的社會(huì)中卻無(wú)所謂家庭、個(gè)性、情緒、自由和道德，人與人之間根本不存在真實(shí)的情感，人性在機(jī)器的碾磨下灰飛煙滅。本書為英文原版，經(jīng)典32開本便于隨身攜帶閱讀，精校版忠于原著，同時(shí)提供英文朗讀免費(fèi)下載。 Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. The title of this book derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, (Act V, Scene I). Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.-"After Ford"-in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of "the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century". 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 BBC's survey The Big Read.(展開)
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