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Brave new world, 1984, and We : an essay on Anti-Utopia : (Zamyatin and English literature)
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Author: Edward James Brown
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We Rocks
A predecessor to 1984 (the most awesome book in existence), it also deals with a vision of a dystopia far in the future. Zamyatin depicts a controllist state governed by something as impermeable as mathematics. No emotion is involved and the soul is seen as a disease. Although the situation is much more dispairing than the one shown in 1984, it also offers some hope as one still gets the impression of a resistance outside the green wall. Despite the "numbers" being completely brainwashed, the One State is a society on the brink of collapse. The Guardians are ultra paranoid of any abnormal activity, spying on the citizens more than normal. The book is written in the form of a journal addressed to the people of another planet. It justifies the One State and is an attempt to socialize the other planet's people before a possible invasion by men.


Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell and Huxley
Published in Hardcover by Yale Univ Pr (1965)
Author: Stephen Jay Greenblatt
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Excellent literary criticism
This book contains four very good essays -- one on the works of Evelyn Waugh, one on George Orwell, one on Aldous Huxley and a final one on the common threads running through the works of all three authors. The essay on Evelyn Waugh's works is particularly good. It points out alot of symbolism and motifs which I had missed (but which now seem obvious). This essay focuses primarily upon Waugh's use of architecture as a symbol of social values. However, it only covers Waugh's first four novels (Decline & Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief and Handful of Dust). Similarly, the essay on Huxley only discusses his first two novels(Crome Yellow and Antic Hay) and Brave New World. Both authors continued to write brilliant satire throughout their lives (Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan comes to mind as an example). I wish the Greenblatt had expanded his study to include a representative cross-section of Waugh's and Huxley's works.


1984, krijgen Orwell en Huxley gelijk?
Published in Unknown Binding by Lannoo ()
Author: Miel Dekeyser
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Aldous Huxley and George Orwell: A Comparative Study of Satire in Their Novels
Published in Hardcover by Sterling Pub Private Ltd (1991)
Author: Yashoda Bhat
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Autobiographical Notes: With Comments on Tennyson and Huxley
Published in Hardcover by Gordon Press Publications (1961)
Author: George Robert Gissing
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Dawn and the darkest hour: a study of Aldous Huxley
Published in Unknown Binding by Faber ()
Author: George Woodcock
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The early Ionians
Published in Unknown Binding by Barnes & Noble Books ()
Author: George Leonard Huxley
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Evolution and Ethics: T.H. Huxley's Evolution and Ethics With New Essays on Its Victorian and Sociobiological Context
Published in Hardcover by Princeton Univ Pr (1989)
Authors: James Paradis, George Christopher Williams, and Thomas Henry Huxley
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Four against the Bank of England
Published in Unknown Binding by Long ()
Author: Ann Huxley
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Greek epic poetry from Eumelos to Panyassis
Published in Unknown Binding by Faber ()
Author: George Leonard Huxley
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