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Kitty Garstin's husband confronts her affair by demanding she either divorce him or go with him to a cholera-ridden Chinese village.

Screwtape, a demon, gives his nephew Wormwood advice on how to corrupt a human's soul.

From grave robbers and an unfair life sentence, to a woman who knits her hit list, Lucie and her friends must navigate the uncertainty of the French Revolution.

A young orphan navigates the grim underbelly of 19th-century London, facing adversity and hardship, yet ultimately finding kindness and familial connection.

When their father dies, the Nicklebys are sent to an abusive boys' school. Nicholas confronts the headmaster, leading to a series of adventures and secrets.

This story follows the lives of the students at Mr. Gradgrind's fact-driven, creativity-draining school during the Industrial Revolution.

Jane falls in love with her employer, who proposes to her, but then she finds out he's secretly married to someone else.

Amid the constraints of post-WWI England, a young married woman has an affair with a workman and struggles with her husband's disability.

The intersecting lives of three families from different social backgrounds reveal the tensions between tradition and change, exploring themes of class, inheritance, and personal connections.

Lucy falls in love with George on her first trip to Florence, but society finds his family unconventional.

A servant tells a tenant the turbulent and obsessive love story of his landlord -- a story full of generational curses, ghosts, tragedy and the moody Yorkshire moors.

It appears that the story's two main couples are friends who share health issues --but nothing is as it seems.

Emma's attempts to matchmake cause problems.

Two sisters, Marianne who is more emotional and Elinor who is more rational, both learn to understand the other as they search for husbands.

Elizabeth Bennet thinks Mr. Darcy is arrogant, but she gradually comes to admire him.

This epic poem recounts Adam and Eve's sin and expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

After abandoning passengers of a sinking ship, Jim spends the rest of his life trying to atone for his cowardice.

The thrilling adventures of Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, exploring the mysteries of the ocean and confronting themes of isolation and rebellion.

An eccentric Englishman, Phileas Fogg, embarks on a wager-driven race around the globe, encountering diverse cultures and numerous challenges.

Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat and political theorist, wrote this book to help royalty make difficult decisions, arguing that the end result may justify immoral methods.

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser who makes everyone around him miserable until he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Beowulf is an old English epic poem written between 975 and 1025 AD about how Beowulf defeats both a monster and a dragon.

This collection includes "A Child's Christmas in Wales and five other poems "Fern Hill", "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night", "In the White Giant's Thigh", "Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait", and "Ceremony after a Fire Raid".

Dylan Thomas reads some of his own poems as well as readings from some of his favorite authors, making history with the first spoken word album.

Tolkien's son, Christopher reads selections from his father's The Silmarillion, and Tolkien reads selections from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

This is a collection of translated fairy tales from Hans Christian Anderson.

Alice chases the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, where she meets the Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts. The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, finds Alice in a fantastic land where everything is reversed.

Mary, an orphan, is sent to England to live with her uncle and his son, Colin. While there, she becomes aware of a secret garden no one has seen for ten years.

Professor Moriarity works with other criminals to kill Sherlock Holmes who has surprisingly fallen in love.

A weaver wrongly accused of theft finds redemption and purpose in raising an abandoned child, demonstrating themes of community and transformation through love.

A collection of writings by Anais Nin, exploring themes of sensuality, intimacy, and the complexities of human relationships through her distinct and introspective voice.

The comedic adventures of three friends who embark on a boating trip along the River Thames, filled with humorous mishaps and observations and "Three Men on the Bummel" sequel to "Three Men in a Boat," following the same characters on a humorous cycling trip through Germany, highlighting the cultural differences and comical misadventures.

A young Saxon noble experiences the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings, navigating loyalty, bravery, and the shifting landscape of medieval England.

The lives and loves of characters on the remote Egdon Heath intertwine with tragic consequences, exploring themes of fate, desire, and the inescapable pull of the land.

The collection includes "Cheap Excursion", "The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe", various poems and excerpts from Brief Encounter, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, and The Apple Cart.

A collection of short stories exploring various genres and settings, showcasing human experiences ranging from drama to humor to suspense.

Set against the backdrop of British colonial rule in India, the complex relationships between colonizers and the colonized unravel, revealing cultural misunderstandings and the struggle for justice.

This collection of short stories depicts the lives of Dublin's residents, exploring themes of paralysis, epiphany, and the quest for meaning in everyday life.

This collection includes selections from his most important works: Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners. The most fascinating treat here is the landmark recording of James Joyce reading selections from Ulysses.

Mann explores the relationships between disciplined intellect and ungoverned passion, and between decaying age and youthful beauty.

This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy.

In a dystopian America, a group of industrialists withdraw their talents in protest against oppressive government regulations, leading to the collapse of society and highlighting the importance of individual achievement and free enterprise.

The tragic story of Anna Karenina, a woman whose passionate but socially forbidden love affair leads to personal and societal turmoil, set against a backdrop of Russian aristocratic life.

A literature professor's obsession with a young girl, whom he nicknames Lolita, leads to a disturbing and manipulative relationship, exploring themes of desire, exploitation, and moral ambiguity.

Stephen Crane's classic antiwar novel is set in the American Civil War and deplicts the realistic study of an inexperienced soldier trapped in the fury and turmoil of war.

The American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century.

Anne Lindbergh writes about being alone, finding love, and searching for peace.

A portrayal of New York society in the 1870's where money was important but counted less than manners and morals.

The unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary and demoralized soldiers.

During the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age, Gatsby revels in the American Dream but finds that it has a darker side.

A dog is taken to Alaska where he becomes a leader of a wolf pack, among other adventures!

When an amoral drifter begins an affair with a married woman, they begin to plot the murder of her husband, but that leads to more problems.

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg.

Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the citizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society.

This cycle of coming-of-age stories tells of a spirited adolescent boy whose encounters with birth and death teach him about loss and profound emptiness.

. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America.

Jon Stewart uses humor and satire to describe American politics.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is trying to force his elderly relatives out of the House of the Seven Gables, but the unexpected happens when a two century old curse and a boarder who uses hypnosis get involved.

Hester Prynne is forced to wear an "A" to shame her for her adultery. Meanwhile her embittered husband and the rest of the town tries to identify her baby's father.

Presents a story of two former high school sweethearts in the small North Carolina town of Oriental. Now middle-aged, they've taken divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined, and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives!

In China in the 1920s, Wang Lung and his family try to survive despite political and social change swirling around them.

Guy Montag's job as a fireman means torching books. But when his neighbor exposes him to the exciting ideas in these illegal books, he starts to question his bland life.

Douglas Spaulding's summer of '28 included new sneakers, mowed lawns, Grandma's dinners, bees and firecrackers.

The Glass Menagerie is a play about a mother and son trying to set up the daughter with a young man. This CD collection also includes poems and the short story, "The Yellow Bird".

Capote investigates the 1959 murder of a family of four in a small Kansas town --a true murder with seemingly no motive or clues.

A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness.

The core of the novel is Kilgore Trout, a familiar character very deliberately modeled on the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), a fact that Vonnegut conceded frequently in interviews and that was based upon his own occasional relationship with Sturgeon.

William Carlos Williams reads his own poems, and J.D. McClatchy provides commentary.

Janie Crawford recounts her first two unhappy marriages and then her third happy marriage which ends when she shoots her husband out of self-defense and is tried for murder.

Reluctantly returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to investigate the murders of two preteen girls, a newspaper reporter is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.

These poems, prose and theater performances showcase leading African-American writers.

Mark Twain: "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County", "The one-million pound bank note", A visit to Niagrara", and "A mysterious visit" -- Stephen Crane: "The blue hotel" and ""The bride comes to yellow sky" -- Ambrose Bierce: "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "The eyes of the panther" -- Jack London: "To build a fire" and "Love of life".

Enduring stories that are as relevant today as they were when written at the turn of the century by influential women writers.

Set in medieval England, the book follows the legendary outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men as they fight for justice and defeat the oppressive Sheriff of Nottingham.

Washington Square stells the story of a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father.

Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and managed to take something of value from his battles: a deep and abiding respect. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap his nephew, forcing Tell to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the boy back.

. The collection includes:Riding for the Brand, The Black Rock Coffin Makers, Dutchman's Flat, The Nester and the Piute, Mistakes Can Kill You, Trail to Pie Town, and Big Medicine.

Blood money -- Saint with a six-gun -- Trail of the Apache -- Trouble at Rindo's station -- The boy who smiled -- The Tonto woman -- Hurrah for Capt. Early -- Only good ones -- The Colonel's lady -- You never see Apaches -- Three-ten to Yuma.

The story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience.

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife.

Introduction -- Twenty day with Julian & Litte Bunny -- Young Goodman Brown -- The minister's black veil -- Rappaccini's daughter.

Edna Pontellier struggles with societal expectations of her as a wife and mother.

A harrowing depiction of a pretty young girl's life in the slums of turn-of-the-century New York City and her eventual decline into prostitution.

"The Caedmon Poetry Collection is an exceptional audio anthology of some of the twentieth century’s greatest poems, read by the poets who wrote them."

Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the mysterious death of a young nobleman, uncovering dark family secrets and the complexities of Venetian society.

This collection includes works from famous authors which have entertained people for years.

This collection includes works from famous authors which have entertained people for years.

Twenty-three of the great classic short stories are read by various narrators. Authors include Poe, Wilde, Hawthorne, Kipling, Nesbit, and more.

This collection includes "Floating Bridge", "Family Furnishings", "Comfort", "Nettles", "Post and Beam" "What is Remembered", "Queenie" and "Bear Came over the Mountain".

This collection includes "Runaway", "Chance", "Soon", "Silence", "Passion", "Trespasses", "Tricks", and "Powers".

CD1. To- (1:48), Alone (1:01), The city and the sea (3:01), The fall of the House of Usher (22:57), The haunted palace (2:15), The pit and the pendulum (30:27)

CD2. Masque of Red death (16:25), The tell-tale heart (13:40), The black cat (25:57)

CD3. The raven (8:15), The facts of the case of M. Valdemar (16:15), The cask of Amontillado (15:45)
The bells (4:02) , Annabel Lee (2:03), Eldorado (:39)

CD4. Ligeia (47:03), The imp of the perverse (14:06), Morella (14:45)

CD5. Berenice (23:50), The gold bug (53:50)

Washington Irving visited Al Hambra and combined myths, descriptions and actual history of what he called a "picturesque and beautiful city", a city that has often been a site of conflict between Muslims and Christians.

This collection includes "Rip van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", "The Spectre Bridegroom", "The Adventure of the German Student", "The Devil and Tom Walker", "The Adventure of the Mason", "Legend of the Rose of Alhambra", "The Governor and the Notary", and "Governor Manco and the Soldier".

This is a collection of John Cheever's short stories read by a variety of narrators.

E.E. Cummings reads from a selection of his own poetry.

These selections from William Falkner include "A Rose for Emily", "Spotted Horses", "Barn Burning", "As I Lay Dying" and his 1949 Nobel Prize acceptance speech

This includes "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Tarquin of Cheapside", "O Russet Witch!"

The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays, covering such topics as love, crime, religion and death.

This includes "The Snows of Kilmanjaro" (D1-47:34), "The Old Man and the Sea (D2-3-143:19), Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (D4), "Second Poem to Mary" (D4), "In Harry's Bar in Venice" (D4), "The Fifth Column" (D4), "Work in Progress" (D4), and "Saturday Night at the Whorehouse in Billings, Montana" (D4; 45:15).

This collection includes "Killing", "The Family Meadow", "The Orphaned Swimming Pool", "A & P", "Gesturing", "Snowing in Greenwich Village", "The Bulgarian Poetess", "The Persistence of Desire", "The Man who Loved Extinct Mammals", "Lifeguard", "Your Lover just Called", and "Ace in the Hole.

Juan "Johnny" Rico fights a cosmic battle against sentient bugs! SQUISH!

A lone human raised by Martians meets humans on Earth.

Griffin, a scientist, has found a way to make himself invisible but has become violent and unstable as a result.

Dr. Jekyll is a moral doctor who at night becomes the violent Mr. Hyde.

The Time Traveler describes his trip to the future garden world of the Eloi and Morlocks.

These stories include "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Time Machine", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "The Cask of Amontillado" and more.

These horror stories include Dracula, Frankenstein, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", "The Flying Dutchman" and more.

A scientist creates a creature who turns violent after being unaccepted by society.

Sweeney Todd's shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of customers. To dispose of their remains, he carried them to an underground bakery of one Mrs. Lovett, whose pie shop was a few blocks away. She ground the cadavers into stuffing for her meat pies!

"Come then to Castle Dracula, hidden in the forbidding peaks of the Carpathian Mountains, where an undying creature of evil casts his sights on unsuspecting England. Voyage on the doomed ship Demeter as it carries a monster out of ancient superstition in search of new life and new blood.

When the prima donna is scared away from performing because of rumors of a masked phantom, Christine takes her place. But will she and her lover survive the masked phantom's demands?

This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel's past are revealed.

The story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness.

During their college years, Andrew and Vicky McGee participated in a series of experiments. As a result, they developed telepathic powers. But when their daughter Charlie started to display terrible pyrokinetic abilities, a ruthless government agency attempted to kidnap her, resulting in Vicky's death. Now on the run, Andrew must shield his daughter from the nefarious intentions of the government agency.

A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

When the princess Rosalind is banished from court, she pretends to be a farmer, meets a variety of characters and falls in love.

Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius are involved in a love triangle, but it becomes more complicated with an elopement in an enchanted forest and the spells of the mischievous elf, Puck.

Macbeth is doomed by the prophecies of three witches and his murder of Duncan, King of Scotland.

Shakespeare's interpretation of Julius Ceaser's assassination and the subsequent war emphasizes questions about ambition, ethics, and loyalty.

Rebellion still simmers in England and King Henry's health is failing. Prince Hal has proved his courage but the king still fears that his son's pleasure-loving nature will bring the realm to ruin. Meanwhile Falstaff and his ribald companions waste the nights in revelry, anticipating the moment when Hal will ascend the throne.

Henry decides to invade France where he thinks he has a claim to the throne. At Agincourt he leads his army into battle against the powerful French forces and, against all the odds, wins a famous victory.

The young king of Navarre and three of his courtiers have vowed to lock themselves away for three years of study and fasting, and to forswear the company of women for this period. No sooner is their vow made than it is tested, however, as the princess of France and three of her ladies arrive in Navarre on a diplomatic mission. The young men fall instantly and hopelessly in love, and the tension between their vow and their passion forms the subject of this charming and sparkling early comedy.

The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet) fall in love, they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune.

In Shakespeare's most controversial play, the opposing values of justice and mercy must be resolved. Antonio promises money to help his friend Bassanio woo Portia.

Young Claudio has fallen for the lovely heiress Hero, who also loves him. Their path to the altar looks smooth, until the evil Don John intervenes.

Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother, and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers.

In a jealous rage, Leontes mistakenly accuses Polixenes and his own his wife, Hermione, of adultery and her newborn daughter as illegitimate, casting her into the wilderness, causing their son to die of grief and Hermione to seemingly follow suit. With his family dead or believed dead, Leontes must face the tragic consequences of his actions. With unbridled honesty and the pain of love, the final act is one of Shakespeare’s most moving reconciliation scenes.

Shakespeare's timeless sonnets, which describe love in all its aspects, represent one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They include the star-struck Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"), the witty Sonnet 103 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"), the despairing yet hopeful Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state"), and more. As read by the legendary Sir John Gielgud.

This is a collection of Greek myths about Zeus, Hera, Athena, Hercules, and others.

This is an ancient Greek story about Helen, Achilles, Odysseus and more.

Homer's The Odyssey (written in 7th or 8th century B.C.) is an ancient Greek epic poem telling about Odysseus' ten-year trip home from war during which all his crewmates are killed by various dangers.

This is a collection of ancient fables with animal characters first told by the Greek slave Aesop.

In order to escape his abusive father, Huckleberry Finn fakes his own death. He meets up with the runaway slave Jim, and the two begin a new, carefree life on a raft traversing the Mississippi River.

This includes excerpts from Life on the Mississippi, Roughing It, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad, Stories of Mark Twain

A murder mystery is complicated by two boys who were switched at birth --one raised as the slave and the other as the master.

Two boys, one a pauper and the other a prince, discover that they share an incredible likeness and accidentally find their roles in life reversed.

Life on the Mississippi evokes the great river that Mark Twain knew as a boy and young man and the one he revisited as a mature and successful author.

Tom Sawyer's childhood is full of pranks and fun along the banks of the Mississippi.

In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life.

This is a variety of works from one of the most quotable of all twentieth-century authors―the inimitable Dorothy Parker

This sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service.

It's the 1930s, and while Harrison Shepherd works for Mexican painter Diego Rivera, he's also becoming the confidante of Diego's wife, Frida Kahlo.

. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn.

Researcher Marina Singh is sent by her boss at Vogel, a drug manufacturer, to the jungles of Brazil following the death of a co-worker. It is there that the company is looking into a miracle drug based on a tree bark used by a native tribe and into the mysterious death of the co-worker.

Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu Christian pastor in the 1940s, struggles with the racial injustice of South Africa when his son is accused of murdering a white man.

A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.

Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.

Beautiful and gifted, with a bright future, Esther Greenwood descends into depression, suicidal thoughts, and madness while interning at a New York City magazine.

Harry is surprised to be invited to the Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches. Will he fit in?

Harry is actually getting good grades for once in Potions thanks to his used textbook with notes from the "half-blood prince", but who is the half-blood prince and will Harry go too far with using his spells?

Harry Potter struggles with a threatening teacher, problematic house elf, the dread of upcoming final exams, and haunting dreams that hint toward his mysterious past.

Harry is entered without his permission in a deadly contest between three schools of magic.

Sirius Black, a murderer and Voldemort's follower, has escaped from Azkaban and is after Harry.

The Chamber of Secrets has been opened; Muggles are being attacked, and Harry is suspected by everyone since he can talk to snakes.

Harry, Ron and Hermoine try to locate and destroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, but Dumbledore didn't leave them many clues.

Mountain Empire Community College (Virginia) shares a collection of bluegrass and gospel music.

Mountain Empire Community College (Virginia) shares a collection of Bluegrass and Gospel music.

Tarzan's wife and son were kidnapped, and he was stranded on a desert island. Using his bond with animals, he escaped to pursue the kidnappers.

Jack, Tarzan's son, befriends Akut the ape, but when Akut kills a man attacking Jack, they run away to the jungle.

This beloved tale follows the journey of a man raised by apes in the African jungle, as he battles wild animals and hunters, discovers his true identity, and finds a place in the world.

Tarzan, while on a special mission, discovers the city Opar. While investigating this new found city, he discovers savage men and women.

Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...

1984 and Animal Farm portray life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.

1984 and Animal Farm portray life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens, directs all activities, and polices one's thoughts..

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.

Story of the ever failing quest for a human utopia with individualism destroyed.