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EPISODE · Sep 20, 2022 · 5 MIN

Aldous Huxley George Orwell by Geoffrey Giuliano

from High-Quality Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture · host Francesco Hartmann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aldous Huxley George Orwell Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A deep dive into the heart and mind of both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. The greatest contributions to the tradition of dystopian fiction are two defining masterpieces from the 20th century, both of them bestsellers at the time and ever since: Aldous Huxley’s 1932 Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four. The two dystopias have many details in common. Both writers saw a future shaped by weapons of mass destruction — biological and chemical weapons in Huxley’s case, nuclear war in Orwell’s. They agreed about the danger of permanent social stratification, with humanity divided into categories determined by biological engineering and psychological conditioning (Huxley) or traditional class combined with totalitarian loyalty systems (Orwell). Both men imagined future societies completely obsessed with sex, though in diametrically opposite ways: state-enforced repression and celibacy in the case of Orwell; deliberate, narcotizing promiscuity in the case of Huxley. Both men thought the future would be dominated by America. Both men thought that future governments would spend a lot of effort permanently trying to incite economic consumption — not that either man thought of anything as wildly fantastical as quantitative easing. Both began their books with a short sentence designed to signal a world that was familiar but also disconcertingly futuristic “ Here are both literary giants in their own bold words!

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