BOOK 106: BRAVE NEW WORLD: ALDOUS
HUXLEY
TRIVIA: Brave New World's title
derives from Miranda's
speech in William
Shakespeare's The Tempest,
Act V, Scene I.
Huxley wrote Brave New World in
1931 while he was living in England. By this time, Huxley had already
established himself as a writer and social satirist. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair
and Vogue
magazines, and had published a collection of his poetry (The Burning Wheel,
1916) and four successful satirical novels: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves
(1925), and Point Counter
Point (1928). Brave New World was Huxley's fifth novel and first dystopian work.
The American
Library Association ranks Brave New World as No. 52 on their list of
most
challenged books.
In 2009, Ridley Scott and Leonardo Di Caprio
announced that they would collaborate on a new adaptation of the book.[37]
However, as of 2013, the project has been on hold while Scott has been involved
with other projects such as the Prometheus
film series.
The term "hypnopaedia" is
also used by author Anthony Burgess in another famous dystopian novel, A
Clockwork Orange.
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