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Yevgeny Zamyatin
1924
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932
288 pages
In a future where citizens are engineered for contentment and kept calm with a drug called soma, Bernard Marx and the Savage John discover the cost of a stable, pleasure-driven society. John's arrival from a reservation exposes the emptiness behind the World State's comfort.
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Content warnings: Suicide
