Brave New World (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

xxxi, [1], 237 pp. Tall 8vo. Original forest green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece and full-page gravure illustrations by Mara McAfee, foreword by author and introduction by Ashley Montagu. Huxley's classic dystopian novel, picturing a bleak authoritarian future in which mankind is medicated into happiness, and reproduction occurs in laboratories. One of several dystopias inspired by Eugene Zamiatin's 'We', and a continuing influence in the genre, it has been adapted to film twice, with rumors of another film in the works.