Brave New World : Key info
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Key info
Key Facts:
- Writer: Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
- Original Title: Brave New World
- Source: William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, Act V, Scene I, Miranda’s speech:
“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ‘t.”
- Written Time: 1931
- Published Date: 1932
- Genre: Dystopian Fiction, Science Fiction
- Tone: Satirical, Pessimistic, Ironic, and Detached
- Point of View: Third-person Omniscient
- Words: 63,766 words, 311 (1932 ed.)
- Total Chapters: 18
- Setting:
- Time Setting: AF 632 (After Ford), which is around the 26th century.
- Place Setting: The World State and the Savage Reservation in New Mexico