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Aldous Huxley
English novelist and essayist of encyclopedic and visionary prose. His most famous novel, "A Happy World," is a dystopia that explores the dangers of totalitarianism and the loss of individual freedom in a technology-controlled future.
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On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabited by several of Huxley's most outlandish characteristics -- from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who wrote 1,500 published words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious," to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive "History of Crom."
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It describes a society in which the birth and upbringing of human beings has been modernized.
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