About This Book
When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utop...
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Reading Time Estimates
3h 54m
slow reader
180 WPM
2h 48m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 0m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 42,075 words📅 6 days at 30 min/day
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3 h 7 min
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2 h 20 min
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