美丽新世界BraveNewWorld（全英文原版）
定 价：25 元
- 作者：阿道司·赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley）
- 出版时间：2017/8/1
- ISBN：9787220101755
- 出 版 社：四川人民出版社
- 中图法分类：H319.4:I561.45
- 页码：272
- 纸张：轻型纸
- 版次：1
- 开本：32开
《美丽新世界》是英国作家阿道司·赫胥黎于1931创作并于1932发表的政治讽喻小说。该书主要描写了机械文明下的未来社会中，人的“人”性被机械剥夺殆尽，处于“幸福”状态的人们以几种种姓产生于工业化的育婴房，接受种种安于现状的教育，热爱机械化的工作与生活方式的未来生活。该小说影响巨大，与《一九八四》和《我们》并列为世界三大反乌托邦小说。
“鲸歌英文原版”系列图书第一辑，精选国内读者耳熟能详十本名著：《呼啸山庄》《月亮和六便士》《简·爱》《老人与海》《1984》《美丽新世界》《人性的弱点》《假如给我三天光明》《动物庄园》《飘》，以国外的出版社版本为参照，原版复制，精心编排，力求原汁原味还原外版图书的风貌。这十本书文笔优美，阅读难度不高，非常适合有一定外语阅读能力的读者首次入门接触外国小说。
在机械文明笼罩的未来社会中，丧失“人性”的人们“幸福”地生活着。小说内涵深刻，耐人寻味，影响遍及世界范围，对如今处在高速发展时期的我们亦有具有警示意义。
世界三大反乌托邦小说之一。
出版34年内销量近300万册的长销作品。
世界文学史上的经典之作。
原汁原味，原版引进。
良心国货，性jia比高。
阿道司 赫胥黎，以小说和大量散文作品闻名于世，也出版短篇小说、游记、电影故事和剧本。赫胥黎通过他的小说和散文充当着社会道德、标准和理想的拷问人与批评家。1932年创作的《美丽新世界》让他名留青史。
‘Lighter than air, ’said Bernard, pointing upwards.
Like a pearl in the sky, high, high above them, the Weather Department’s captive balloon shone rosily in the sunshine.
‘... the said Savage, ’so ran Bernard’s instructions,‘to be shown civilized life in all its aspects...’
He was being shown a bird’seye view of it at present, a bird’s eye view from the platform of the Charing T Tower. The Station Master and the Resident Meteorologist were acting as guides. But it was Bernard who did most of the talking.Intoxicated, he was behaving as though, at the very least, he were a visiting World Controller.Lighter than air.
The Bombay Green Rocket dropped out of the sky. The passengers alighted. Eight identical Dravidian twins in khaki looked out of the eight portholes of the cabin-the stewards.
‘Twelve hundred and fifty kilometres an hour, ’said the Station Master impressively.‘What do you think of that, Mr Savage?’
John thought it very nice.‘Still, ’he said, ‘Ariel could put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes.’
‘The Savage, ’wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, ‘shows surprisingly little astonishment at’or awe of, civilized inventions. This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that he has heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m-.’
(Mustapha Mond frowned.‘Does the fool think I’m too squeamish to see the word written out at full length?’)
‘Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls“the soul”, which he persists as regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment; whereas, as I tried to point out to him...’
The Controller skipped the next sentences and was just about to turn the page in search of something more interestingly concrete, when his eye was caught by a series of quite extraordinary phrases.‘... though I must admit, ’he read, ‘that I agree with the Savage in finding civilized infantility too easy or, as he puts it, not expensive enough;and I would like to take this opportunity of drawing your fordship’s attention to...’
Mustapha Mond’s anger gave place almost at once to mirth. The idea of this creature solemnly lecturing him- him -about the social order was really too grotesque.The man must have gone mad.‘I ought to give him a lesson, ’he said to himself; then threw back his head and laughed aloud.For the moment, at any rate, the lesson would not be given.
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