The Dystopian Duo: Brave New World (1932) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Book: Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Year published: 1932
Reading date: January 2012
Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: George Orwell
Year published: 1949
Approximate reading date: January 2011, maybe a little earlier
"After all, what Brave New World depicts is a society in which each person has a place, and not only that–each person is happy in that place. And isn’t that, in effect, a utopia?"
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