Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Book review: Brave New World
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Book review: Brave New World

The Graphic Novel version

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Terry Freedman
Sep 07, 2022
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Book review: Brave New World
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The hard-edged dystopia of Orwell’s 1984 tends to be invoked more often nowadays than Huxley’s vision of a contentedly numbed populace, but in some respects, Brave New World seems closer to our lived reality. Social media as the modern Soma, anyone?

This is a good, highly engaging adaptation of the famous novel for English students, but could also prompt…

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