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Door of Perception
In his later years, Aldous Huxley was invited by a friend to personally try mescaline, an active ingredient extracted from a peyote cactus, which resulted in many hallucinations. At the same time, Huxley's friends and wife also recorded the entire process. Afterwards, Huxley, who had experienced the hallucination, could not calm down, so he wrote the book "The Doors of Perception" based on the various memories in his mind, as well as his own murmurs in the re-listening recordings, and his variou
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Brave New World
In the year 632 of the Ford Era (AD 2532), in a world country where science and technology are highly developed, disease and aging have been eliminated. Everyone enjoys the comfortable life provided by scientific and technological production without having to bear any pressure. They can pursue freedom and entertainment as they wish. Bernard realizes that this happiness is very false. He has been under some kind of control: humans are born from embryo factories and divided into classes through ta
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Brave New World (Classic Translation)
Are we going to destroy the things we love? Are we left to choose between chaos and madness? "Brave New World" imagines the future society of the 26th century AD. There, human beings are divided into several "castes" and are produced in batches in industrialized nurseries. After unified education and training, they complete fixed jobs and consume according to their pre-set identities. There, everyone is in their own place, happy and contented, and everything that humans have dreamed of for hundr
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Loudin's Demon: the Case of the "Possession" of a French Priest
"Loudan's Demon" records a huge unjust, false and wrong case in European history. It happened in the middle of the seventeenth century AD after the end of the dark Middle Ages and before the outbreak of the French Revolution. At that time, the name of the rector of the small French town of Loudain was Urbain Grandier. This man was knowledgeable and handsome, but unfortunately he was also a lover and secretly owed many romantic debts. These scandals made him enemies of many people in Loudain, and
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Brave New World: English-Chinese
"Brave New World" is a science fiction novel published by Huxley in 1932. It depicts a future society under mechanical civilization. In that world, humanity is stripped away by machinery. People in a state of "happiness" are pre-set castes and then hatched out of test tubes and baby bottles. The embryos are divided into different castes from low to high and receive different training. Those of the lower caste are short and ugly and take on the lowest jobs in society; those of the upper caste are
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Brave New World
"Brave New World", published in 1932, is Aldous Huxley's outstanding masterpiece and one of the famous dystopian literary classics of the 20th century. Together with Orwell's "1984" and Zamyatin's "Us", it is called the "dystopia" trilogy and has a profound influence on the domestic and foreign literary and ideological circles. This is an allegorical work that shows the future picture of human society in Huxley's eyes: through effective scientific and psychological engineering, human beings have
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Dystopian Novel (All Three Volumes)
"We": The unified country in the 26th century is a totalitarian country. Everyone has only a number, no name, lives in a completely transparent glass house, wears the same uniform, eats chemical food, enjoys a rationed sex life, and is ruled by an all-powerful "benefactor" who never changes. Political police are everywhere, and happiness and freedom are incompatible. But totalitarianism cannot extinguish the glory of human nature. Here, people's pursuit of freedom has never stopped... "1984": As
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Theory of Heavenly Evolution (Original English Version)
"On the Evolution of Heaven" is a translation published in 1897 by Yan Fu, an enlightenment thinker in the late Qing Dynasty. The original text is "Evolution and Ethics" written by British biologist Huxley. Yan Fu creatively adopted the "dazhi" translation method, integrating Spencer's social Darwinism and traditional Chinese philosophy, and put forward the core proposition of "natural selection, survival of the fittest". Through the dialectical framework of heaven's movement (cosmic process) an
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