- Brave New World. Complete
online text of the novel (the online version of the book has been removed
from somaweb per the legal threat by Arthur Klebanoff of Rosetta Books;
he can be contacted at aklebanoff@rosettabooks.com)
- Utopia by
Sir Thomas More. Online text.
- 1992 -
Brave New World and the present day?
- Novelguide.com -
summary, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, etc...
- BNW Monarch Notes. A good
online summary and review of the book. (99 k)
- Barron's
Book Notes series on Brave New World. Similar to Cliff Notes. Includes
the following subjects: novel, plot, characters, setting, themes, point
of view, form & structure, style, the story summarized, a step beyond,
tests and answers, term paper ideas, glossary, critics, advisory board,
and bibliography. The online version is here.
- BNW
Max Notes at amazon.com
- Classic
Notes
- Role of Individuality in
Invisible Man and Brave New World -John Coughlin.
- Brave New World
or Island -The World Must Decide. Ram Dass gave the following talk
at The Celebration Of the Birth Centenary of Aldous Huxley.
- BNW: The Cost of Stability By
Ricky Gehlhaus, Jr.
- The Cost
of Stability in BNW: Freedom. By Ming Li.
- Brave New World Project by
Stephanie Iser. Includes: character sheet, author info, time info, chapter
summaries, vocabulary terms, quotes, book summary and a survey of reader
opinions.
- BNW,
by Richard Cornelissen. Comprehensive information.
- A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering. "Brave
New World is one of the most insidious works of literature ever written. " This
author of this article challenges the common public perception of the
novel and offers a vision for the future.
- BNW
radio broadcast by Huxley. "Brave New World" was originally
broadcast as the series premiere, in two parts, on January 27 and February
3rd, 1956. Aldous Huxley himself narrated this hour long adaptation of
his dystopic novel of a quickly nearing future in which society manufactures
babies for specific roles in life and people control and mellow their
experience with the drug Soma...
- BNWAudio
tapes. As read by British actor Michael York, this unabridged audio
edition of the book is both timely and absolutely captivating.
- National Public Radio, NPR specials
on Huxley. Huxley biographer David Dunnaway, reexamines this classic
work 65 years after it was first published, RealAudio
28.8 file, Aug 12, 1997. Thursday, December 23, 1999.
- BNW Audio Book by
audiopartners.com. Other BNW
audio tapes.
- BNW
summary at The Literature, Arts & Medicine Database.
- BNW Chapter XIX, by Inga Duechting,
Christina Pichlmaier, Nicole Tessmer.
- BNW:
A Study of Dehumanization
- Conditioning
and Instinct by Richard Lung.
- Five
and a Half Utopias. Despite its dismal record, the utopian impulse
is by no means extinct. An eminent physicist looks at several of the
guises in which utopian thinking is likely to appear during the century
ahead -- and at the perils that lurk behind each one. By Steven Weinberg.
Atlantic Monthly, Jan 2000.
- First
Things. Article on BNW by Leon Kass. "All contemporary societies,
the open ones no less than the closed, are traveling briskly in the same
utopian direction."
- BNW
Themes by Marin.
- BWN Themes by
Mireia Ferrandis Pradas.
- Henry Ford. at
the Henry Ford Museum. Real about the man and company.
- Short essay by
Marta Cortell Villora
- A Potentially
Frightening New World by Cal Thomas.
- Embodiments and Contextual Difference in
Brave New World by Tom Bracali.
- Utopian
Visions site: Soma,
Shakespeare, and Suicide: The Terrors of Techno Utopia, by Courtney
Campbell; The
Dangers of Utopian Thinking and the Republic by Gregory Johnson; Plato
and Utopia by William Uzgalis; Exclusion
and Utopian Thinking by David Anderson; Marcuse's
Modern Marxism: Utopia for the Twentieth Century by Lisa Blasch; Elements
of Utopia by Kim Daley & Suzanne Gaulocher; Utopian
Writing: It's Nature and Historical Context by Brooks Spencer.
- Two Modern Utopias:
A Comparative Study of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Stanislaw
Lem's Return From the Stars Michael Richard Lopez, May 1998.
- Snow Crash
vs. Brave New World. Visions of the future. By Eric Richardson.
- Exploring
Dystopia: 1984, Brave New World, Gattaca. Interesting site.
- "In That New World Which
is the Old": New World/Old World Inversion In Aldous Huxley's Brave
New World. By Oliver Quimby Melton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
December 2003
- Group
Analysis of Brave New World by 15 groups of German students. 2005.
- The Society For Utopian Studies.
Founded 1975. International, interdisciplinary association devoted to
the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis
on literary and experimental utopias.
- Brand New World, 2005.
An interesting movie exploring contemporary advertising, television and
consumerism as it related to Brave New World. Film includes interviews
with academics, hermits and Huxley scholars. .
Filmmakers: Ewan Jones-Morris & Andrzej Wójcik. Original site is down but here is the archived
site.
Peter Gallagher and Leonard Nimoy starred in NBCs world premiere
movie "Brave New World," based on Aldous Huxleys
classic modern novel. The production was telecasted Sunday, May 3,
1998. Also starring are Miguel Ferrer, Academy Award nominee Sally
Kirkland, Tim Guinee and Rya Kihlstedt.
Gattaca. "There
is no gene for the human spirit." This film touches upon some
of the ideas and issues presented in Brave New World. The main character,
who is an "invalid" or natural born, struggles to achieve
his dream in a genetically engineered society which sorts and discriminates
it's members by their DNA purity. Gattaca trailer
and movie at
. More info at
IMDB.
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