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Best known for his novels<br />

including Brave New World, set in<br />

a dystopian future; for non-fiction<br />

books, such as The Doors of<br />

Perception, which recalls experiences<br />

when taking a psychedelic drug; and a<br />

wide-ranging output of essays. Huxley<br />

was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist.<br />

He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and<br />

philosophical mysticism, in particular universalism. By the end of his life,<br />

Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of<br />

his time<br />

Brave New World Is a novel published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD<br />

2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates<br />

developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological<br />

manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to profoundly<br />

change society. Considered to be the best work of this writer.

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