Just finished reading “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, which he wrote in 1931, and which has been linked to “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. Orwell in turn thought it was more along the lines of a book entitled “We”, a book I’ve been wanting to read for a very long time. [1]
However, the foreword, penned in 1946, and appearing in later editions of the book and in the third and final story “Island”, is more jarring than the original story.
I don’t understand why such books were not even discussed in my college years.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
