Cheshire Cats Classics Club

Our April pick is "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the
ideal society. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought
the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the
Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons, designed to perform menial tasks, man is bred
and educated to be blissfully content with his pre-destined role.

But, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard
Marx is unhappy. Harboring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling
only distaste for the endless pleasures of compulsory promiscuity,
Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the
few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still
continues, may be the cure for his distress…

A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the
present--considered to be Aldous Huxley' s most enduring masterpiece.