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Brief candles

  • Aldous Huxley

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Describes the socialised horror of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom. Human beings, graded from intellectuals to manual workers, are hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries and learn by conditioning to accept their social destiny. The story develops around an unorthodox AlphaPlus, who visits a New Mexican Reservation and brings a savage back to London.

Genres

  • English fiction
  • Passivity (Psychology)
  • Totalitarianism
  • Genetic engineering
  • Collectivism
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
  • Drama
  • English Short stories
  • Literary collections
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About the author

  • Aldous Huxley

    26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963

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    531 ratings · 1008 works

Editions

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    Chatto & Windus

    1970

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    Tauchnitz edition. New series Volume 8

    Tauchnitz Edition

    1947

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    Fountain Press

    1930

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    Doubleday, Doran & company, inc.

    1930

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Chatto & Windus

1930

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    Chatto and Windus

    1957

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    Penguin

    1965

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    [New ed.

    Flamingo

    1994

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    Chatto

    1957

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    Albatross Verlag

    1935

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    Chatto and Windus

    1930

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    Chatto & Windus

    1957

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    Triad

    1977

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    Chatto &Windus

    1970

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    Chatto & Windus

    1930

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    Copyright ed.

    B. Tauchnitz

    1930

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    Leisure Arts Ltd.

    1969

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    Penguin

    1965

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    Copyright ed.

    Albatross for B. Tauchnitz

    1935

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    Chatto & Windus

    1948

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    Chatto & Windus

    1930

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    Collected ed.

    Chatto and Windus

    1948

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    Librairie Plon

    1936

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    Grosset & Dunlap

    1930