Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse distaste for the pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an illdefined 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 distressHuxley`s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.
Aldous Leonard Huxley, nacido en Godalming, Surrey, en 1894 y muerto en Hollywood en 1963, es una de las mayores figuras de la literatura británica contemporánea. Ensayista, biógrafo, poeta y autor teatral, debe su notoriedad principalmente a sus novelas, entre las que destacan Los escándalos de Crome (1921), Contrapunto (1927), Un mundo feliz (1932) y Ciego en Gaza (1936).
