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Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, a modern classic published by Harper Perennial, is a landmark dystopian novel set in a future society called the World State. This society is characterized by advanced technological control, genetic engineering, and conditioning that suppress individuality and promote consumerism, social stability, and superficial happiness at the expense of freedom and authentic human experience. Citizens are categorized by a rigid caste system, bred and conditioned for predetermined roles, ensuring conformity.

The narrative follows characters like Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne, who begin to question their conditioned existence, and John "the Savage," raised outside the World State, who confronts its values with a perspective rooted in traditional human emotions and Shakespearean ideals. The novel explores themes of technological control, the sacrifice of individuality for societal harmony, and the ethical dilemmas surrounding progress and happiness.