Brave New World
Product ID: 270791311
📏Compact 12.8x19.7 cm size
📚288 pages of timeless dystopia
⚖️Lightweight 205g for easy carry
Buy anything from 5,000+ international stores. One checkout price. No surprise fees. Join 2M+ shoppers on Desertcart.
Desertcart purchases this item on your behalf and handles shipping, customs, and support to Iceland.
📖 Own the future’s past—read the dystopia everyone’s talking about!
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a 288-page vintage classic print edition published by Vintage Classics. Weighing just 205 grams and measuring 12.8 x 19.7 cm, this compact book offers a chilling, visionary look at a future society obsessed with pleasure and control. Highly rated and ranked #2 in multiple sci-fi and political fiction categories, it remains a must-read cultural landmark that continues to inspire and provoke.
| Best Sellers Rank | #501 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Political & Protest Poetry #2 in Genetic Engineering Science Fiction #2 in Political Fiction |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (17,372) |
| Dimensions | 12.8 x 1.7 x 19.7 cm |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN-10 | 0099518473 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0099518471 |
| Item weight | 205 g |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 288 pages |
| Publication date | 6 December 2007 |
| Publisher | Vintage Classics |
H**I
Great
Classic
M**E
Not new quality.
The book was water damages with marks on it.
D**M
Good contents of the book, but no mention of the dust jacket
Pros: A classic that holds up, font and text is clearly readable, the introduction is brief an concise. Cons: From the pictures on Amazon page you cannot clearly tell that the illustration on the hard cover is not engraved into the book itself but just a dusk jacket. I have not found anything in description on the Amazon page that specifies otherwise . For a 90th Anniversary Edition I expected a more premium care/build of the book.
J**S
Perfeito!
Perfeito!
J**O
Excelente Libro
Estupendo libro, leanlo
S**N
Książka
Bardzo fajne wydanie.
F**G
When Freedom Is Inconvenient
Huxley imagines a future where control doesn’t come from fear, but from comfort. No Big Brother screaming at you—just endless pleasure, distraction, consumption, and chemically engineered happiness. No books to burn, because no one wants to read. No repression, because desire itself has been redesigned. It’s chilling in the quietest possible way. Huxley’s warning isn’t about losing freedom violently, but about trading it away willingly, in exchange for comfort and stability. Re-reading it now feels less like revisiting a classic and more like holding up a mirror. Orwell warned us about power that hurts. Huxley warned us about power that seduces. And yes—small but important detail—the hardcover edition is nice. Clean design, compact and pleasant in the hands. A lovely object that contains a deeply uncomfortable idea.
Trustpilot
1 week ago
1 month ago