Huxley wrote Brave New World in four months in 1931. It appeared three years after the publication of his best seller, the novel Point Counter Point. During those three years, he had produced six books of stories, essays, poems, and plays, but nothing major. His biographer, Sybille Bedford, says, "It was time to produce some full-length fiction--he still felt like holding back from another straight novel--juggling in fiction form with the scientific possibilities of the future …showed first 75 words of 1131 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1131 total…novels cover so may social issues. As Mathew puts it "BNW looks at mans quest for domination of the natural world which when looked at closely the reader is able to see in doing this there is virtually nothing left that is natural or hasn't been manipulated to suite the controllers wants of a world based around commerce." Works Cited "Brave New World" 11/17/02 < www.novelguide.com > "Aldous Huxley" 11/18/02 < www.online-literature.com >