Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the ideal society. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons, designed to perform menial tasks, man is bred and educated to be blissfully content with his pre-destined role. But, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard Marx is unhappy. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling only distaste for the endless pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress... 作者简介 阿道司.赫胥黎是一位多产的英国作家,共写作了50多部小说、诗歌、哲学著作和游记,其中ZUI的作品是长篇小说《美丽新世界》。他是生物学家的儿子,从小受到良好的教育,先后毕业于伊顿公学和牛津大学。他对人类生活中的矛盾具有超人的预见力。尽管一次眼疾几乎让他视力全失,但在学习了盲文后,他逐步开始写作,先后创作了许多胎炙人口的小说,并在20年代成为一个明星人物,其中,1932年创作的《美丽新世界》让他名留青史。
Aldous Huxley(1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles.
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